PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Fear Conditioning, Drug Tolerance, Startle Response
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What is learning: refers to a "collection of different techniques, procedures, and outcomes that produce changes" in behaviour. Learning= a lasting change caused by experience: relatively permanent change in behaviour resulting from experience, relatively permanent because some part of the brain is physical altered once we learn. Learn through conscious efforts to make those connections: ex. Long term habituation examples: chronic snorer, drug addict. In babies: when an infant is first presented with a mobile (the stimuli) she was interested in it and started at and reached for it, over time, she habituates to the stimuli and stops looking for it. Form of non associative learning: we begin to respond more strongly to the event over time and repeated exposure mo, opposite of habituation. Involves an increase in response as opposed to habituation that decreases the response: especially likely to occur if the event is.
