PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Immunosuppression, Robert A. Rescorla, Reward System
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Also shapes personal habits, personality traits, emotional responses, and personal. Learning: a relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience preferences. Not exclusively a human process many organisms can learn. Conditioning: involves learning associations between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Phobias: are irrational fears of specific objects or situations. First he presented meat powder to the dogs, and collected their saliva. First described by ivan pavlov ( aka pavlovian conditioning) Found that they started salivation before the meat powder was presented. They would salivate in response to a clicking sound the machine made by the machine that was used to present the meat powder. So he decided to pair the meat powder w/ various stimuli.
