PSY 2103 Study Guide - Stimulus Control, Startle Response, Asymptote

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2103
• Professor: marahumphreys

Document Summary

Fixed action pattern: occasioned my a specific stimulus drop their eggs when they encounter a certain pattern of light: reaction chain: genetic and inheritable response (same as a fap); however, each, recap of some important terms & concepts, biological selection by consequences, phylogenetic: relations based on genetic endowments, fixed action pattern: sequences of behavior, with a biological context, occasioned by a specific stimulus. Primary laws of the reflex: law of threshold : a very weak intensity of a stimulus will not elicit a response, law of intensity magnitude: as the intensity of the us increases, so does the ur, law of latency: as the intensity of the us increases, the latency to the appearance of the elicited ur decreases, habituation, when an unconditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented and elicits a unconditioned response; over time the response gradually decreases in magnitude; eventually it may extinguish, a behavioral process that results in phylogenetic history, what habituation looks like.