PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Decision-Making, Habituation, Frontal Lobe
26 Dec 2016
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Learning: relatively enduring change in behaviour due to experience. > e. g, if you regularly work out - on your way to the gym, your body will feel energized because it is prepared for you to exert energy. > prediction and control of behaviour: not-associative learning: info about one external stimulus. > habituation: decrease in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus. It is no longer signi cant stimuli (not harmful or rewarding) Sensitization: increase in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus. You are in an aroused state - extra attention - possibly harmful stimuli: associative learning: how two or more pieces of info are related. > classical conditioning: learn that two stimuli go together. > operant conditioning: learn that behaviour leads to a particular outcome. > long term potentiation [ltp]: the strengthening of synaptic connections between neurons. > heroin addiction rates extremely high [20%] in us soldiers. > relapse rate of vietnam vets was only 5%
