PSYC 2330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Psychoactive Drug, Latent Inhibition, Drug Tolerance
10 Oct 2013
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To identify the potential css and uss you have to look at the responses elicited before conditioning what it can be used for is relative to the other stimuli in the situation. Learning is faster if the cs and us are novel, rather than highly familiar. This is called the latent-inhibition effect or cs-preexposure effect. It inhibits or disrupts learning and evidence for this has been found in rats and humans. If this occurs, the cs will not be associated as quickly to the us. This doesn"t also mean that learning is rapid but also that more aspects of the behaviour become conditioned and learning is not disrupted as easily by increasing the. Extent to which the cs is relevant or belongs with the us. Study involving rats suggested that rats conditioned with sickness learned a stronger aversion to taste than to audiovisual cues, rats conditioned with shock learned a stronger aversion to audiovisual than to taste cues.
