PSYC 340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3,5,6: Slot Machine, B. F. Skinner, Habituation
20 Sep 2016
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Habituation and sensitization help to bring the behavior of organisms in tune with their environment. Habituation and sensitization involve learning about just one stimulus: events in the world do not occur in isolation. Cause and effect relationships in the world ensure that certain things occur in combination with others. Learning to predict events in the environment and learning what stimuli tend to occur together help us interact more effectively with our environment. Classical conditioning- the simplest mechanism whereby organisms learn about relations between one event and another. The discoveries of vul"fson and snarskii: the first systematic studies of classical conditioning were done by vul"fson and. Learned to associate the visual features of sand with its orosensory features: to study mechanisms of associative learning, the stimuli to be associated have to be manipulated independently of one another. The effectiveness of this stimulus in eliciting salivation depended on pairing it several times with the presentation of food: the food- us- unconditioned stimulus.
