PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neural Pathway, Classical Conditioning, Psy
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Psy 100: intro psychology - lecture 6: learning. Learning refers to an enduring change in the way an organism responds based on its experience: creating new neural pathways, why babies sleep often, distinct from, drug effects (caffeine-induced jitters are not learning) Three assumptions of learning theories: responses are learned rather than innate, although both nature and nurture do work together, learning is adaptive, our experiments can uncover the laws of learning (there are 3) These laws will apply to animals and to humans. Develops most phobias, because of a lot of triggers to past memory. The russian physiologist pavlov noted that reflexive salivation in dogs could be elicited by stimuli associated with feeding: reflex: response that is reliably elicited by a stimulus. Prior to conditioning: ucs (meat) ucr (salivation, neutral stimulus (bell) no ucr (no salivation) During conditioning: neutral stimulus (bell) with ucs (meat) ucr (salivation) After conditioning: cs (bell) cr (salivation)
