PS101 Lecture 7: learning
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Learning: lasting change as a result of practice, study, or experience. Associative learning: a change as a result of experience where two or more stimuli become linked. Non-associative learning: learning that does not involve forming associations between stimuli: it is change resulting from experiences with a single sensory cue. Habituation - weakening of response to a stimulus after repeated presentation. Over time they get bored of the stimuli. Dishabituation - a form of non-associative learning whereby there is a recovery of attention to a novel stimulus following habitation. After you get used to one, you can get interested again. Sensitization - a strong stimulus results in an exaggerated response to the subsequent presentation of weaker stimuli. We go on an alert and become sensitized. 2 main types: classical conditioning and operant conditioning. The association between environmental stimuli and the organisms responses.
