PSYA01H3 Chapter 7: PSYA01 chapter 7 notes
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our behavior is changeable in response to certain experiences. Learning adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behavior is changed by experience. experience alters the structure and chemistry of the brain: alterations affect how the nervous system responds to subsequent events. performance behavioral change produced by the internal changed brought about by learning: evidence that learning has occurred. orienting response any response by which an organism directs appropriate sensory organs (ears, eyes, nose) toward the source of a novel stimulus. habituation simplest form of learning; learning not to respond to an unimportant event that occurs repeatedly. Long-term habituation complex"; more complex nervous systems. Involves learning about the conditions that predict that a significant event will occur. dogs were used to getting food after the sound of a bell which made them salivate.
