PSY BEH 11B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Organism, Drug Tolerance, Observational Learning
29 Mar 2018
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Intro: habituation, you get used to a stimulus and stop responding to it. The perspective of learning theory: learning theorists, researchers that believe that learning depends on the mechanisms of association (among ideas) Habituation: habituation familiar, a decline in the response to a stimulus once the stimulus has become, ex. Person living near road will definitely notice if the noise goes away: this is important because it brings news about the world, all infants can hear acoustic difference, no matter where they"re from, ex. Japanese child hears la and then ra and notices. Warning sign 10 miles before a sharp turn: simultaneous pairing, stimulus is at same time, ex. Warning sign at sharp turn: backward pairing, stimulus is after, ex. Red light > loud horn makes you tense at the red light: orange light makes you cringe initially but then you get over it.
