NROC61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prefrontal Cortex, Classical Conditioning, Instrumental And Value-Rational Action
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Instrumental vs pavlovian conditioning: grindley (1932) found a form of learning that couldn"t be explained via. Midterm 1: measure the time needed for the animal to get there, in measuring action avoidance, after conditioning the animal to run to get the reward, administer shocks along the runway. Those with hippocampal damage might not remember which arm they previously went into, making it harder to go into a new one: match-to-place involves the reward being located in the same place every trial. Reward for approaching behaviour, then only when sniffing it, then when pressing it. Midterm 1: sometimes, instrumental learning can lead to superstitious behaviour and you want to avoid this, could be a potential confound when interpreting results if they aren"t performing the behaviour you want them to. Reinforcer devaluation: there are 3 phases to reinforcer devaluation. In phase 1, subjects are trained to lever press to get food and pull chain to get sucrose.
