PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Electrodermal Activity, Eric Kandel, Aplysia

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: William Huggon

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Learning: change in an organism"s behaviour or thought as a result of experience: when we learn, brains change along with our behaviours, goes under chemical changes every few minutes. A lot of learning depends on associating one thing with another: knowledge by conditioning. In the case of pavlov"s dogs, the unconditioned stimulus is the meat powder, and the automatic, reflexive response it elicits is the unconditioned response (ucr). The key point is that the animal doesn"t need to learn to respond to the unconditioned stimulus with the unconditioned response: dogs naturally drool in response to food. The animal generates the unconditioned response without any training at all, because the response is a product of nature (genes), not nurture (experience). (3) as pavlov repeatedly paired the neutral stimulus with the unconditioned stimulus, he observed something remarkable. If he now presented the metronome alone, it elicited a response namely, salivation.