PSYC 2330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Eyeblink Conditioning, Chemotherapy, Impulsivity
12 Oct 2017
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Habituation and sensitization involve learning about just one stimulus, however evets do not occur in isolation; rather much of our experience consists of predictable and organized sequences of stimuli. Cause and effect relationships in the world ensure that certain things occur om combination with others (ex. run does not run unless ignition is on) Social institutions and customs also ensure that events occur in a predictable order (ex. people are better dressed at church) Classical conditioning enables human and nonhuman animals to take advantage of the orderly sequence of events in their world to take appropriate action in anticipation of what is about to happen. Psychic secretions stomach secretions elicited by food related stimuli. Receive more attention b/c of its relation to association learning and function of the nervous system. Vul"fso(cid:374) used natural occurring materials to study the vary responses to substances such as dry/wet food, sour water and sand (after mere sight made them salivate)
