PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Drug Tolerance, Learning, Big Questions
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Describe nonassociative learning processes: habituation and sensitization. A relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience. Observational learning by watching how others behave. Nonassociative learning about a stimulus, such as sight or sound, in the external world. Habituation when our behavioral response to a stimulus decreases. Drug tolerance when you take it often the more you need to feel the effects. Loud clock ticking realize it"s not a threat so you learn to not hear it. Still perceiving stimuli but not reacting to it as much. Sensitization when our behavioral response to a stimulus increases. Differentiate between the ur, us, cs, and cr. Describe acquisition, second-order conditioning, generalization, discrimination, extinction, and spontaneous recovery. Describe the rescorla-wagner model of classical conditioning, including the role of prediction error and dopamine in the strength of associations. Associative learning the relationship between 2 pieces of information. Classical conditioning when we learn that a stimulus predicts another stimulus.
