[PSYCH 1X03] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (128 pages long!)
1 Dec 2016
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How we can behave appropriately in the future to predict the outcome: classical conditioning applies to us every single day. A: the cues signalling the compensatory response are absent. The first sure step to a new line of investigation (pavlov) Stated that psychology has to look at things that can be observably measured. 2 main types of learning: non associative learning: a. Explicitly, voluntarily engaging in a behaviour that leads to a particular outcome c. ii. Ex: putting money into a vending machine where outcome = food: can work in both rewarding and inverse conditions. The brain changes during learning: long-term potentiation (ltp): the strengthening of synaptic connections between neurons. Huge rate of heroin addiction among u. s soldiers (about 20%) general drug addiction rate in america = 0. 3% Functional changes in brains suffering from drug addiction affects future choice of behaviours. Brains of addicts respond to taking the drug, but also to drug-associated cues.
