PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Robert A. Rescorla, Tequila, Neural Adaptation
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Learning: any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Superstitions: example: me, always lacing up right skate. Wayne gretzky tucking in shirt was used in text. Phobias: irrational fears of speci c objects or situation and are often the result of another learning process-classical conditioning. Conditioning: involved learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning: type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus, often called pavlovian conditioning, pavlov studied dog with meat and saliva. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs: stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. Unconditioned response (ucr: the unconditioned response is an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. Conditioned stimulus (cs: previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. Conditioned response (cr: learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning.
