Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Observational Learning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Piggy Bank

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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Arne ohman did studies on what people are more likely to develop conditioned fear responses to . Certain brain regions such as the nucleus accumbens, as well as certain neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, play a role in regulating the ability to predict and experience reward. However, there is no single part of the brain responsive for learning. Wolfgang kohler proposed that animals can learn by insight, which is the sudden perception of a. Different cells represent different parts of the environment and the firing pattern of these groups of place cells is thought to represent a cognitive map that supports recognition of different locations. Enables animal to successfully navigate its environment. Ucs, while in backward pairing (which usually produces no learning), there is no predictive value in the neutral stimulus. Cogniton in operant congnition lots of evidence to support the claim that mental processes play a key role in operant conditioning.