PSYB64H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Anterograde Amnesia, Sensory Neuron, Aplysia
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Week 8 july 13 th , 2015. Reflex: an involuntary response to a stimulus: produced by prewired neural connections or reflex arcs, produce rapid, reliable responses, however, inflexibility can be disadvantageous when the environment changes. Instinct: a stereotyped pattern of behavior elicited by particular environmental stimuli: automatic like reflexes, but their behaviors are more complex, somewhat modifiable by experience; are consistent enough to be referred to as fixed action patterns. Learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior or the capacity for behavior due to experience: associative learning: the formation of a connection between two elements or events. Classical conditioning: a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to signal the occurrence of a second, biologically significant event. Conditioned stimulus (cs): an initially neutral event that takes on the ability to signal other biologically significant events. Unconditioned stimulus (us): an event that elicits a response without prior experience. Conditioned response (cr): a learned reaction to the cs.
