PSYC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Powdered Milk, Bell Number, Primitive Reflexes

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Learning: more or less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Exposed to sensation for period of time stop noticing strong smell e. g. learn new language forget if don"t use it; learn 2nd time learn more easily and quickly. We sometimes forget or lose ability to do things. Wobbling falling of bike sleep influenced by learning easier to fall asleep in similar room than in strange room (something you wouldn"t associate with sleep) Watching chef on tv change in behaviour potential (change in cognition): what you have learned affects potential ability to perform behaviours after learning has occurred. Newborn babies rooting reflex : brush newborns cheek will turn head, after few weeks behaviour will change regardless of experience. 2. describe how behaviours are acquired and extinguished through classical conditioning. Form of learning in which animal learns an association between 2 stimuli.