PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Conditioning, Reflex, Contiguity

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Clayton Dickson

Document Summary

Adaptive behaviour: the ability to propagate your gene to the next generation. Our feverous system is adapted to be able to response to specific stimuli. That which increases an organism ability to survive and reproduce. Long time scale: selection of genetically-dependent behaviours which confer reproductive advantages. Short time scale: ability to modify ongoing behaviour-leaning. Behavioural adaptation to the environment occurring within an organism"s lifetime. Meaning: s-o-r extended the idea that inside the blackbox, there is more. Organism can show the leaning through behaviour (stimuli-organism-response) things that occur in organism that affect the stimuli and response. Functional relevance there is something that can"t be learning due to the niche. Behaviour described simply as a function of the relationship between observable stimuli and responses. Aristotle: association by contiguity stimuli that occur together tend to form an association where the thought of once leads to the thought of the other. Habituation: a decrease in response strength to a response stimulus.