PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Foodborne Illness, Classical Conditioning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Effects of biology and cognition, and learning observation. Learning is the product of interaction of biological, psychological, and social- cultural influences. Animals capacity for conditioning is constrained by its biology. Each species predispositions prepare it to teach the associations that enhance its survival. If a stimulus is threatening to ones survival, you automatically stay away from it. Taste aversion: if you get food poisoning from raw fish, the smell and taste of the fish would become cs for food poisoning. This learning occurs readily because our biology prepares us to learn taste aversions to toxic food. Nature sets limit on each species capacity for operant conditioning. We most easily learn and retain behaviors that reflect our biological predispositions. You can easily condition a hamster with food to dig or rear up, because these are among the animals natural food searching behaviors. washing and other hamster behaviors that aren"t associated with food or hunger.