PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gastrointestinal Disease, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Radiography
15 Dec 2015
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Inborn predispositions to learn were demonstrated with respect to: the separation in time between the cs and us is a critical determinant of conditioning. Learning is unlikely to take place at delays of more than few seconds: equipotentiality premise - it dose not matter what stimuli are used in conditioning. Cs will be equally good in all contexts: pavlov: any natural phenomenon chosen at will may be converted into a csany visual stimulus, any desired sound, any odor, and the stimulation of any part of the skin . Flavor-illness associations (linda parker: conditioned taste avoidance, measured by consumption test, appetitive and consummatory, conditioned disgust (gaping, measured by taste reactivity test, consummatory. Taste reactivity test measures conditioned disgust: flavoured solution = cs, sucrose -> tongue protrusions, drug = us, sickness = ur, pair cs with us, present cs and measure the cr sucrose -> gapes .
