PSYC 720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clicker Training, Orienting Response, Dishabituation
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Habituation: when a stimulus evokes decreased response over time. What features of an object are important: stimulus qualities (salience, novelty, intensity, etc. , motivation, number of presentation trials, temporal spacing of presentations. Sensitization: when a stimulus evokes increased response over time. Desensitization: habituation of a previously sensitized response. Dishabituation: sensitization of a previously habituated response. Teaching a dog to recognize objects by name with clicker training. Presentation: object recognition and generalization during habituation in horses. Take away points: it may be possible in crease object generalization in horses by habituating them to a range of colors and shapes simultaneously. Face recognition problems in adults: prosopagnosia: fusiform face area. Exposed wild crows to a novel dangerous face by wearing a unique mask as they trapped, banded, and released birds. After trapping, crows consistently used harsh vocalizations to scold and mob people who wore the dangerous mask, and continued to do so for at least 2. 7 years.
