PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement Learning, Habituation
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Consider the following two scenarios: helen (age 7) has spent the last year observing her sister ruth (age 10) struggle with their parents about ruth"s 8:30 bed time. Their parents see hellen as a perfect child because she willingly goes to bed at 8:00 without fussing: tom loves maps. Whenever he goes to a new city, he will first spend time studying maps of the major roadways and the public transportation system, if there is one. While at a conference near the airport in chicago, he learns that an old friend is in the hospital downtown. He has no problems taking subway from the airport into downtown and walking from the subway stop to the hospital. C. helen"s behavior is due to vicarious learning. D. both helen and tom are benefitting from latent learning. Alterations in the functioning of the synapse lead to habituation and sensitization. For both types of nonassociative learning, presynaptic neurons alter their neurotransmitter release.
