PSY 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Aplysia, Edward C. Tolman, Sexual Attraction
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Habituation: change in an organism"s behavior or thought as a result of experience, process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli, aplysia. Neurophysiologist eric kandel discovered that repeated stimuli decreases the release of serotonin. Classical conditioning: pavlov"s discovery of classical conditioning. Dogs began salivating to neutral stimuli associated with the meat powder. Form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response. 1) started with an initially neutral stimulus. 2) paired the neutral stimulus again and again with an unconditioned stimulus (ucs), which elicits an unconditioned response (ucr). 3) present the neutral stimulus alone and observe the conditioned response (cr). The neutral stimulus became the conditioned stimulus (cs). Unconditioned stimulus (ucs: stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Unconditioned response (ucr: automatic response to a non-neutral stimulus that does not need to be learned.
