Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Little Albert Experiment, Vise, Sunburn

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

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Learning & adaptation: the role of experience: define learning. Learning is the process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)is(cid:373)(cid:859)s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) o(cid:396) (cid:272)apa(cid:271)ilities. Adaption to the environment and evolution learning over time is stored in the genes. Learning by recognizing one event as predicting another. Neutral stimulus: the tone because it does not elicit the salivation response. Learning trial: is when the food and tone are paired together. Fear as a response to a situation paired with pain. Paired in a forward short-delay (the cs appears first and is still present when the ucs is there) Time interval between cs and usc is short (short-delay: define the following terms/concepts: _habituation the decrease in the strength of a response to a repeated stimuli. Snake) acquired from a pairing with an ucs (ex. Snake bite)= fear of snakes: fear can be learned and unlearned (ex.