Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Fixed Action Pattern

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Todd Hall

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: capabilities knowing how and doing / performance. Classical conditioning: classical conditioning learning to associate two stimuli such that one stimulus comes to produce a response that originally was only produced by the other stimulus, ex. Food (ucs) salivation (ucr: during conditioning: Tone (cs) + food (ucs) salivation (ucr: after conditioning: Tone (cs) salivation (cr: reflexive organism does the action by nature. Learning trail stimulus and response paired: lean most quickly by forward short delay pairing (playing a tone with presentation of food) Repeated extinction trials will speed up extinction: spontaneous recovery reappearance of a previously extinguished cr after a rest period, without new learning trials. Cr from spontaneous recovery is usually weaker (why therapy takes many session to improve fears)