PSYA01H3 Chapter 7: chapter 7
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Our behaviour is changeable in response to certain experiences. Learning: is an adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behaviour is changed by experience. Ur performance can be affected by your mental or physical state. Experience alters the structure and chemistry of the brain. These alterations affect how the nervous system responds to subsequent events. Perfomance: is the behavioural change (or new behaviour). I t is the evidence that learning has occurred but it is imperfect because other factors such as fatigue, motivation, can also affect. Three kinds of learning: habituation, classical conditioning, operant conditioning. A sudden, unexpected noise causes an orientaing response: we become alert and turn our heads toward the source of the sound. Habituation is learning not to respond to an unimportant even that occurs repeatedly is one of the simplest forms of learning. Short-term habituation: after a few days the same respone will occur .
