PSYC 2P45 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gangrene, Classical Conditioning, Demand Characteristics
6 Mar 2016
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Believer of free will- but not in this course. From our parents, society, media: we learn from experience, observation, living, idea started back with ancient greek philosophers- aristotle. Learning is an enduring change in the mechanisms of behaviour involving specific stimuli and/or responses that results from prior experience with those or similar stimuli and responses . Eat something and then got stomach flu= can"t eat it again: exposed to a stimuli and changed your behaviour in some way. The changes in the mechanisms of our brain in response to learning. Different levels of learning- change when we learn. We look mostly at behavioural level, and a bit of the networks. Cartesian dualism- started the study on learning: we have a body (involuntary) and a mind (voluntary, notice that we react automatically. Touch hot element- respond my taking hand off before you have time to think.
