PSYC 2330 Study Guide - Final Guide: Memory Consolidation, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Overlearning
7 Jul 2014
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Experiments performed in the aplysia have demonstrated that habituation is caused by: Increase in withdrawal reflexive reactions: reduction of interest in the task, reduction of pool of synaptic vesicles, expression of synaptic extracellular potassium. Contingency is calculated as a difference between: probability that a us will occur in the presence of the cs - probability that. Us will occur in the absence of cs. Taste aversion learning is most likely to occur with a food or beverage that has ______ features: novel element of surprise matters most, familiar, changing ---definitely wrong therefore e) is wrong, stable, all of the above. When us has been devaluated animals will no longer show cr. Blocking is the idea that if you"ve learned a predictor of an unconditioned stimulus, ex previous condition to smell blocks the light condition. Primary reinforcing stimuli: are only stimuli needed for survival, possess unconditioned motivational value, are always rewarding, reward good behaviours, none of the above.
