PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Mirror Neuron, Latent Learning, Mental Representation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Rana Pishva

Document Summary

A more or less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Learning automatic associations between two stimuli; react, not think: unconditioned stimulus produces unconditioned response, after training, neutral stimulus becomes conditioned stimulus that produces conditioned response. Acquisition: phase in which response is learned, ways to organize acquisition. Delay conditioning: slight delay between onset of cs and ucs. Simultaneous conditioning: cs and ucs at the same time. Trace conditioning: presenting cs, taking it away, then presenting ucs. Generalization: crs elicited by stimuli similar to the one used in training. Extinction: gradual weakening and loss of the conditioned response as a result of the ucs being withheld after presentation of the cs. Spontaneous recovery: reappearance of conditioned response after a period of lessened response, shows that response has not been lost, but inhibited. Diminished response to stimulus after learned that stimulus is irrelevant. Whereas adaptation is quick and due to fatigue in neurons.