PSYC1011 Final: Animal Learning notes
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Learning is how animals adapt to their changing envir: all animals live in a changing envir. Animals which are better learners are going to survive better & face certain challenges: finding food, reproduction, avoid predators. If there is a solution to the problem we want to learn solution to remember it: mi is no. In terms of yrs lost to disability. Learning is involved in many of these disorders. Also indiv w/ mh problems may learn about the world in a diff way. Why animal learning: we are animals, continuity of species, @ certain stages of devel certain species look very sim anatomically, a lot of potential applications that may help us understand such things as, our likes and dislikes. May be learnt in early devel: anxiety disorders & their treatment. Cbt (exposure therapy: neural basis of learning and memory. Non-associative learning: no connection b/t things, only one thing in which your behav changes.