PSYCH-UA 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Ethology, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
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Operant conditioning allows us to learn appropriate reactions to signals. The organism is placed in an environment in which certain heritable traits survival. How is classic of the species has the adaptable characteristic. allow for higher rates of nsiders psychological and behavioral phenomena as products of natural selection. What do they study how is operant conditioning al conditioning related to survival. Classical conditioning allows us to learn which stimuli signal the presence (or absence) of biologically significant events. The mechanism for these changes according to darwin is natural selection. There is natural variability in organism within a species. traits are more likely to survive (and thus reproduce) and pass on these characteristics to their offspring. Organisms without these traits are more likely to die. Pretty soon of the species has the adaptable characteristic. allow for higher rates of nsiders psychological and behavioral phenomena as products of natural selection. Explores the implications of darwinian theory for explaining behavior.