Psychology 2210A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Japanese Quail, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2210A/B
• Professor: Krista Macpherson

Document Summary

Males mate with females that are same colour of females they"ve mated with before. So they exhibit courtship to stimuli that were associated with females. Males release more testosterone during copulation in presence of sex related stimuli. Classical conditioning stimuli that do not elicit a response may acquire the ability to elicit a response. Us stimulus that elicits a ur. Ur behaviour elicited by the us. Cs stimulus that does not initially elicit the ur. Cr same behaviour as the ur, but elicited by the cs. Operant conditioning - type of learning where behavior is controlled by consequences. Law of effect animals tend to repeat behaviours that produce positive effects and refrain from repeating behaviours that produce negative effects. Thorndike puzzle box trial and error learning. Discrete trials individual trials where subjects have the opportunity to make the correct response skill broken down and built up. Like rewarding for going near the jacket with the dog demo.