PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tuning Fork, Classical Conditioning, Psy
4 Mar 2019
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What is learning: the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, or responses that result in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Us is no longer presented: spontaneous recovery: tendency of a learned behavior to recover from extinction after a rest period, a rest period is typically followed by spontaneous recovery of the cr. The neural elements of classical conditioning: fear conditioning has been related to amygdala activation, amygdala is involved in processing of emotions. It may occur with as few as a single instance: are more likely to occur with novel foods. In thorndike"s original experiments, food was placed just outside the door of the puzzle box, where the cat could see it. If the cat triggered the appropriate lever, the door would be opened and the cat could get out. They still do not know what to do to make the person happy to get a reinforcement.
