PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Pharmacology, Operant Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber
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Learning is the adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behav- iour is changed by experience: performance is the evidence of learning. Habituation: automatically is we have an unexpected alert we turn towards the problem. However with more and more taps the snails did not withdraw into their shells! They became habituated: rankin and colleagues did this to a worm however they also found that the worm re- treats to heat. Ivan pavlov had a goal to discover the neural mechanisms controlling glandular secre- tions during digestion: pavlov tested on dogs feeding them regularly. Eventually the dogs began salivating before being fed, as soon as they saw the lab assistant getting the food ready. The ap- pearance of the lab assistant predicted the appearance of food: pavlov studied the phenomenon further when he gave the god an auditory stimulus before he gave the god food.
