PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Immunosuppression, Eyelid
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Learning: refers to a relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. can include: acquisition of skills, personal habits, personality traits, emotional responses, and personal preferences. Most organisms are capable of learning, and much research that is done on animals can apply well to humans. Conditioning: involves learning associations between events that occur in an organisms environment. Phobias: are irrational fears of specific objects or situations often the result of classical conditioning and are common can be treated, or end on their own randomly: classical conditioning [pavlovian] reflexes . A type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another response . -- role of saliva in dogs meat powder administered, noticed dogs salivating before meat powder was shown/given, psychic reflexes . -- various stimuli stood out in the laboratory experiment, the sounds of the machines that gave the meat powder.
