PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Electric Shock, Acrophobia, Claustrophobia
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Facts, thoughts, and behaviors that are acquired and immediately forgotten have not really been learned; and temporary changes attributable to fatigue, illness, or drugs do not qualify as a learned responses. Habituation: a simple form of learning in which an organism eventually stops responding to a stimulus that is repeated over and over. Need to learn association b/w conditioned stimulus and response. Timing of stimuli is imp: in forward pairing, the cs (cid:667)bell(cid:668) precedes the us (cid:667)food(cid:668) Easiest conditioning: in simultaneous pairing, the us (cid:667)food(cid:668)and cs (cid:667)bell(cid:668) occur together, in backward pairing,the cs (cid:667)bell(cid:668) follows the us (cid:667)food) With repeated pairing, a neutral stimulus can be linked with a cs. The bell cs is paired with a black square: this neutral stimulus becomes a cs. In the example, the black square elicits salivation. Spontaneous recovery is the temporary re-learning done by the animal.
