[PSYC 2P45] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 50 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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Learning is an enduring change in the mechanisms of behaviour involving specific stimuli and/or responses that results from prior experience with those or similar stimuli and responses . Learning change in mechanism of behaviour. Cartesian dualism: involuntary (automatic behaviour, voluntary (conscious behaviour, reflexes, nativism innate ideas. Mind works by association: rules of association (also started by. Darwin paved the way for studying learning by studying it in animals. Experiments: cause and effect, experimental and control groups. General process approach: seeking general laws. Rational for using animals: control past, first learning, how learning evolved, see biological aspects of learning, demand characteristics. What to do: humane treatment of animals, strict federal laws about housing and treatment, minimize discomfort, ethical treatment of animals, what is humane treatment, should we benefit form harming animals (exploiting them, three r"s, replacement, reducing, refining. Chapter 2 elicited behaviour, habituation and sensitization.
