PSYB64H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Nostril, Operant Conditioning, Occipital Lobe
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3 major categories of behavior: reflexes involuntary responses to stimuli. Permanent change in behavior (or capacity for behavior) Most flexible means for responding to the environment. Only those behavioral changes that result from experience will be considered adaptability to our environment = learning learning excludes changes in behavior that occur due to maturation and growth. Cr (salivates from bell) and ucr (salivates from sight of food: development of conditioned responses constitutes the change in behavior that tells us learning has occurred, an advantage to an organism in the struggle for survival. Ability to anticipate future events and prepare for responses. 1: nonassociative learning involves a change in the magnitude of responses to stimuli rather than the formation of connections between elements or events. Habituation and sensitization: habituation, organism reduces its responses to unchanging, harmless stimuli, e. g. when studying, you tune out noises you started hearing, sensitization, repeated exposure to a strong stimulus increases response to other environmental stimuli.
