PSYCH261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Donald O. Hebb, Perceptual Learning, Classical Conditioning
10 Dec 2018
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Learning and memory learning refers to the process by which experiences change our nervous system and hence our behaviour refer to these changes as memories. Experiences are not stored but rather change the way we perceive, think, and plan. Perceptual learning: learning to recognize a particular stimulus. Stimulus-response learning: the ability to learn to perform a particular behaviour when a particular stimulus is present involves establishment of connections between circuits involved in perception and those involved in movement. Defensive reflex or complicated sequence of movements. Classical conditioning: form of learning in which an unimportant stimulus acquires the properties of an important one. involves an association between two stimuli. A stimulus that previously had little effect on behaviour becomes able to evoke a reflexive, species-typical behaviour. If we direct a brief puff of air toward a rabbits eye - the eye will automatically blind: unconditional response (ur)
