PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Corneal Reflex, Lightning, Blood Sugar
30 Jun 2015
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Chapter 2 textbook notes: constructs: are a theortical idea that is quite useful for describing a concept in a genral way, operation definition: what specific behaviour/phenmonon you"re measuring as your variable. Learning module: unconscious, reflexive learning is vital to the survival of a species, child learning not to touch hot stove, 2 unconscious learning processes, classical conditioning-associate 2 related events, instrumental conditioning-associate actions and consequences. Before training the sound had no effect on dog"s behaviour. After training, a dog would being salivating in response to the sound of the metronome alone. New behaviour was called a conditional reflex conditional upon training: pavlov was studying a contingent relationship presentation of 1 stimulus leads to presentation of another. E. x. see a flash of lightning before the crash of thunder. Here the us is getting sick with the ur being avoiding the food an (aversion response) with the cs that creates a contingency being the taste of the food.
