PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Achromatopsia, Temporal Lobe, Visual Acuity
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Learning is an adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behaviour is changed by experience. Performance is the behavioural change produced by internal change. Closed genetic programs are not considered as a kind of learning. A novel stimulus usually immediately captures our attention. Our response to this stimulus is called an orienting response. Habituation functions to aid us in ignoring unimportant stimuli. Short term habituation is common in biologically simple organisms. Ucs intensity and the temporal relationship between the cs and the ucs influence the acquisition of a. If an aspect of a subject"s behaviour is first conditioned using a strong unconditional stimulus but later conditioned using a weaker unconditional stimulus, the conditional response becomes weaker. A dog owner is training his dog to respond to hand signals. He finds that when he speaks to the dog in a loud firm voice while making the signal, the training goes well.
