COGS 101B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sensory Memory, Classical Conditioning
22 May 2014
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Innate skill or sequence of behavior an organism doesn"t need to learn. Ex: grasping reflex, head turning, sucking reflexes (adaptive) Between built in behaviors and very flexible learning. Learning happens in limited time period with extra plasticity. Ex: bird song must hear song between 10-50 days; can"t actually sing song. Must be learned from their species of bird white crowned sparrow cannot learn from a different sparrow. Kids have worse wm, more limited processing capacity, so they generalize better. Consider smaller combinations begin with small parts and build up. When a subject associates taste of a food with symptoms of a toxic, spoiled, or. Usually happens when ingestion of a food causes nausea, vomiting, or sickness. Organism learns to stop responding to a stimulus that is no longer biologically. Ex: ignoring loud noises when you learn they have no consequence. Is a kind of learning that occurs when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an.
