PSY 3103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eyeblink Conditioning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning
10 Nov 2014
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Performance / latent learning to prove learning has occurred manipulation of experience at time 1 and then standard test at time 2. Clever hans observers were given inadvertent cues, clever hans performed accordingly. Ethics in animal research animal suffering/well-being quality of research certainty of benefit. Role of internal events (5 schools of behaviorism) Behavior and stimuli fixed (modal) action patterns (often species specific) i. e. squirrel burying a nut animals respond to sign stimuli = additive effects. Habituation is specific, depends on rate of presentation of. Opponent process theory the emotional reactions to stimuli depend on the balance between the a and b processes and how the b process gets stronger over repeated presentations. Commonly used procedures see attached notes fear conditioning a conditioned emotional response (measured by suppression ratio) taste aversion learning proboscis extension response conditioning eyeblink conditioning autoshaping/sign tracking. Important elements of procedure see attached notes the temporal relationship between cs and us.
