PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Operant Conditioning Chamber, Pharmacology, Behaviorism
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Our behaviour is changeable in response to certain experience. Behaviour is not controlled by neural circuits that are fixed and unchanging. Learning: an adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behaviour is changed by experience. As conditions change, we learn new behaviours and eliminate old ones. Learning cannot be observed directly it can only be inferred from changes in behaviour. Not all changes in behaviour are caused by learning: your performance can be affected by physical or mental condition such as fatigue, fearfulness etc, learning how to do something is different than actually doing it. ex: learning how to change a car tire and changing a car tire. Learning may occur without noticeable changes in observable behaviour taking place. Experience alters the structure and chemistry of the brain. These alterations affect how the nerouv system responds to events.
