PSYC 1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Habituation, Classical Conditioning, Reticular Formation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Chris Motz

Document Summary

Behavioral theories: relating units of behavior to units of environment or responses to stimuli, explaining current behavior and prediction future behavior, reductionistic- show power in understanding and predicting behavior, not as free will based as we may think. Evolutionary theories: focuses on adaptiveness of learning related to surviving a changing environment, still learning when environment is not changing. Learning about the conditions that predict a significant event will occur. Associating that event a leads to event b. Un-conditioned stimulus- stimulus that naturally causes a response that did not need to be learned. Un-conditioned response- response that is naturally caused by the stimulus, not learned. Conditioned stimulus- previously neutral stimulus that is conditioned with the ucs to become a signal for a specific response. Inhibitory conditioned response- cs signals that ucs will not be occurring, pavlov"s assistant that watches the dogs after feeding time.