Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Slot Machine, Stimulus Control, Neural Adaptation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Chapter 7 learning and adaptation: role of experience. Learning process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities (knowing how). Habituation & sensitization: involve a change in behavior that results from repeated exposure to a single stimulus. with each other. (see dog = fear) consequences. (smiling = friendly greeting) Classical conditioning: (associative learning) when 2 stimuli become associated. Operant conditioning: we learn to associate our responses with specific. Can view learning as a process of personal adaptation to the ever-changing circumstances of our lives. Behaviorists focus on how organisms learn, examining the processes by which the experience influences behavior. Assumed there are laws of learning for all organisms. Ethology focuses on the functions of behaviour: adaptive significance how behaviour influences an organism"s chances for survival, fixed action pattern unlearned response automatically triggered by a particular stimulus. Sensitization an increase in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus.