PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Mirror Neuron, Internal Validity, Amygdala
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Learning: change in the organism"s behaviour or thought as a result of experience. Habituation: process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli (simplest/earliest form of learning) Aplysia: 12-centimetre long sea slug found by eric kandel. If you prick the aplysia in a certain shot of its body & it retracts it gill in a defensive way, touch it in the same spot over & over again & it begins to ignore the stimulus. They discovery h3lp3e psychologists unravel the neural bases of learning. Studied habituation using skin conductance response: measure of electrical conductivity of the fingertips. Sensitization: responding more strongly over time rather than habituation. British associationists believed that we acquire virtually all of our knowledge by conditioning. Placed dogs in harnesses & inserted a cannula (collection tube) into their salivary glands to study their salivary responses to meat powder. Dogs began to salivate to a preview neutral stimuli; research assistants (bringing powder) foot steps coming.
