PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Startle Response, Neural Adaptation, Classical Conditioning

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

11/23/2015 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: learning to link two stimuli in a way that helps us anticipate an event to which we have a reaction. Classical conditioning: pavlov, tested on dogs. Operant conditioning: changing behavior choices in response to consequence. Tested on rats: behaviorist approaches observable etc. Operant and classical conditioning on that premise. Cognitive/ social: acquiring new behaviors and information through observation and info rather than by direct experiences, tested on people. Process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in behavior or capabilities. Occurs in cns if there is a reason to be aware of a sensation a behavior will be produced. Implicitly without conscious awareness (learning implicitly: child development studies (babies unable to communicate, occurs across species. Sensory adaptation: happens in sensory system w/ sensory neurons, sensory adaptation is decreased sensory response to a constant stimulus, difference than habituation (h not with neurons)