PSY BEH 11B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Classical Conditioning, Empiricism, Habituation
31 Jan 2019
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All knowledge is obtained through the senses. One"s future dependent on environment exposed to. One is born with sense & the ability to create copies of sensory info in the brain -> learn everything else from there (nothing innate) Born with innate knowledge or reasoning abilities. Inferences & associations made constrained by species, heredity, & maturation. Some sort of innate ability to make sense of the world around us. Habituation: refers to reduction in behavioral response after repeated exposure to stimulus. Adaptive -> helps prevent the depletion of energy unnecessarily. Sensitization: an increase in behavioral response to stimulus after threat. Adaptive -> able to react accordingly to possible threats in environment. How classical conditioning works key concepts, studies, & findings examples: Conditioned stimulus (cs): the stimulus that through classical conditioning elicits a specific response when presented. Conditioned response (cr): the response that is learned by the organism through classical conditioning when presented with conditioned stimulus.
