PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Harvey Swadlow

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Example: you learn to be afraid of spiders. A learning process where a neutral stimulus (the cs) becomes associated with another stimulus (the us) through repeated pairings. Usually smooth muscles and glands are what gets conditioned by stimulus. The learning does not depend on your behavior. Condition stimulus: has no natural ability to evoke responses. Like air on your eye will make you blink with no learning. You drool when you hear a certain tone. As the food woman walks into the room, they drool. The dog"s mind created an association between the womens white coat and food. You may be conditioned for tone and food. The closer to the original tone, the higher reaction. Learns to respond to one and not to another. A neutral stimulus is paired with another conditioned stimulus that elicits a response. You can have false alarms, but better results than if food can sometimes come without the tone.