PSY260H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nicholas Mackintosh, Latent Inhibition, Eyeblink Conditioning
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Chapter 4: classical conditioning - learning to predict important events. Classical/pavlovian conditioning: a form of learning, in which an animal learns that one stimulus predicts an upcoming important event more importantly, an association between the conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus. Natural" response even without the unconditioned stimulus: appetitive conditioning: when the unconditioned stimulus s a positive event. Consists of learning to predict something that satisfies a desire/appetite. Food and sex most powerful appetitive us. Used in fear conditioning of rats by estes, rats that learned that a signal would predict pain-so they waited for it. Important because it appears in many different species. Condition a neutral stimulus (like a tone) to warn the animal to get ready to blink then when it hears it, will blink without the us. Injecting adrenaline (us) heart rate increase (ur); repeat procedure in testing chamber (cs)
