PSYCO381 Chapter Notes -Fear Conditioning, U.S. Route 3, Interstimulus Interval
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Classical conditioning allows an organism to take advantage of the orderly sequence of events in the world to take appropriate action in anticipation of that sequence. Made advances in the study through research on digestion. Referred to stomach secretions elicited by food stimuli as psychic secretions because they responded to the expectation of food. Students of pavlov that focused on the salivary glands responses to substances placed in the mouth like dry food, ewt food, sour water, sand. Found that the sight of substances was enough to make them salivate. Object learning: the association of one feature of an object with another. To study the mechanisms of associative learning the stimuli to be associated have to be manipulated independently of one another, and hence in later studies. Paavlov used stimuli that came from different sources. Unconditioned stimuli: one that elicits a response without prior training.
