PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Explanatory Style, Behavior Modification, M-Learning
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Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from practice and experience. Habituation: most basic form of learning and can be seen in almost all animals. Like sleeping by an airport and you get used to it. Sensitization: increase in response to stimuli that are dangerous or threatening. Eric r kandel studied sensitization in sea slugs. Kandel"s work with sea slugs showed that habituation and sensitization are the result of changes in the amount of certain chemicals released by the neurons in the brain. Biological preparedness: biologically prepared to learn some behaviors. Taste aversions: negative responses to tastes relating to nausea or illness. John garcia argued that all animals are biologically primed to associate certain stimuli (smell and taste) Dopamine: neurotransmitter involved in motivation, emotion, motor control. James old and peter milner: rats could electrically stimulate their brains for pleasure. The rats chose the lever over food, water and sex.
