PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reticular Formation, Social Anxiety Disorder, Brainstem
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Topic: review of chapter 2, continuance of chapter 3 while covering. Will find out next week: will receive a handout for each chapter (these will be handed out today). Behaviour is aroused by external stimuli rather than the result of genetic programming. Example: conflict behaviour, key stimuli, appetitive behaviour etc. (refer to previous note). Socialization process involving instinct and learned components. 1) the attachment process occurs during a limited period in organism"s life. Possible exam question: the organism is most susceptible to being imprinted during the critical period. Thus, once established it does not extinguish and later sexual preferences of adult result from this attachment. Once a lower species is imprinted that imprinting behaviour does not disappear. It will interact with experience and through learning may be modified a little bit but it will not be extinguished. Mammal matures and migrates to its own species (survival of individual and species). 3) imprinting is independent from external reward.
