PSYCH 1F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Orienting Response, Drug Tolerance, Latent Learning
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Drug tolerance: decreased effectiveness of a drug such as morphine over the course of repeated administration. Research suggests learning plays an important role in the development and maintenance of drug tolerance. Environmental stimuli can have an important effect on physiological responses. Learning: relatively enduring change in the mechanisms of behaviour that occur due to experience allow adaptation to the environment (conditioning process) The mechanisms of behaviour: need to consider more than behavioural change alone. Latent learning: experimentally observe learned behaviour not yet reflected in performance (need appropriate contexts) Mechanism: changes in the processes and systems that produce behaviour. Learning involves change that is relatively enduring: despite learning being expressed in behaviour, need not be permanent. Learning is based on experience: behaviours change often due to maturation independent of experience, maturation and learning are closely related. Complicated ideas can be broken down into associative links between individual ideas. Orienting response: automatic shift in attention towards stimulus or event: danger or opportunity.
