PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vending Machine, Learning, Opiate
20 Sep 2016
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Lecture 2: learning: relatively enduring change in behaviour due to experience, routines can make your body prepare in anticipation for certain situations (having a routine of going to the gym everyday, your body prepares for the physical exertion) Behaviourism: we learn from experience: pavlov: re exive responses associate with cues, watson: prediction and control of behaviour. The brain changes during learning: long term potentiation (ltp): the strengthening of synaptic connections between neurons. Why were relapse rates so low in returning vietnam war vets: heroin addiction rate of soldiers- 20% general pop today- . 3, relapse rates of soldiers detoxed- 5% general pop relapse- 20% What causes enigmatic opiate overdose: drug addicts sometimes overdose to amounts of the drug that they have taken before, it is a mystery why they suddenly do not have a tolerance for this drug. Learning allows for homeostasis: body compensates for any change in the bodies baseline of normal operations, physiological regulation is maintained by classical conditioning.
