PSYC 356 Lecture 4: Learning Lecture 4
9 Mar 2017
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Involve changes in one"s repertoire: do not involve learning new responses, classical conditioning is more complex, organism learns relationships between stimuli, new behavioral reponses are learned, novel associations increase survival, modern classical conditioning paradigms with animals. Fear conditioning: can use animals to study fear conditioning, ex. Sign tracking ( autoshaping: movement towards a stimulus signaling availability of a positive reinforce ( food, sex) Size and speed of mouse when running from owl: barn door opening for a chicken, apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur. In the lab, stimuli are presented just before food: brown and jenkins (1968) Food -deprived pigeons for training: birds exposes to a key light 8 sec before food, they predicted once the birds saw the light they would go to the food cup. Span long delays: even if you know better, can occur with illness, chemotherapy, anorexia nervosa, depression, taste aversion procedure, adaption: water -deprive rats.
