PSY397H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Morris Water Navigation Task, Neuroplasticity, Long-Term Memory
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Nematode: detect yeast to eat through chemosensory. Nocturnal insects: use moonlight to fly straight: these reflexes do not give much flexibility to adapt to new environments. Insects often fly to lights at night and burn themselves: example: slug or alypsia californica. It can learn through habituation: after touching it constantly with will no longer withdraw. This is non-associative learning because no stimulus is used. Olfactory and hearing cues are common for habituation. Sensitization: another non-associative learning, constant exposure leads to elevated responses. We may be afraid of snakes despite never seeing them in our life. It is something we know how to do and remember we can do it but cannot recall exactly how we learnt it: example: riding a bike, fine motor tasks. Species specific constraints: pavlovian/classic conditioning, a type of associative learning, shows how rats learn: pairing food and food poisoning is easy to learn (the rat won"t eat back that item)
