Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Noxious Stimulus, Neural Adaptation, Habituation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

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Psych chapter 7: learning & adaptation: learning is a process by which experience produces an enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities, there is a difference between knowing how (learning) and actually doing (performance) Adapting to the environment: learning could be viewed as the personal adaptation to the ever-changing circumstances of our lives. Classical conditioning: associating one stimuli with another: classical conditioning when an organism learns to associate 2 stimuli (ex. Like a song and a happy event: basic form of learning in many species. Acquisition: period during which response is being learned, ex. Sounding a tone, but since the dog hasn"t been conditioned yet, it does not salivate: the tone is a neutral stimulus, unconditional stimulus stimulus that innately elicits a response, ex. No learning required for dog to salivate to food, so food is the ucs: unconditional response reflexive, unlearned response to an innately important stimulus, ex.