PSY312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Autonomic Nervous System, Learned Helplessness, Neurosis
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Spontaneous recovery is when a new context brings the conditioned relationship back: this explains why extinction is not completely true. In order to see if the cs is relevant again. Opponent processing theory: species of self organized processes, sympathetic and parasympathetic system work in opposition of one another. Level of arousal is constantly adapting to its environment: the way in which you make autonomic processes dynamically adaptive of their environment. Organism cant predictively prepare in its environment. When you can predict but not prepare - learned helplessness, depressed. If something is self-organized it can also become self-destructive * The learning mechanism needs to be able to categorize: can be a problem if you overgeneralize, sometimes you need to do the opposite and discriminate. The more you generalize the more you lose acuity. The more you differentiate the more you lose the ability to generalize. As you discriminate more you lose external validity.
