PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Habituation
16 Mar 2015
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Chapter 5: learning: learning a lasting change caused by experience, explicit conscious and deliberate, implicit unconscious, associative learning learning that involves forming associations between stimuli, i. e. flinching at the sound of a dental drill because you associate it with a painful experience, nonassociative learning learning that involves changes in the magnitude of response to a stimulus, i. e. changing how much you respond to nighttime traffic noises after being exposed to it for a while, 2 major types, habituation. I. e. becoming startled after cat knocks over lamp, calming down, then being startled again after phone rings: sea slug example of habituation and sensitization, sea slug gill and siphon withdrawal reflex becomes habituated to a repeated tactile stimulus when neurotransmitter needed to activate its motor neurons has been depleted, the sea slug experiences sensitization to mild stimulation if it is first exposed to a noxious stimulus, like electric shock.
