PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Lemonade, Meta-Analysis, Mirror Neuron
24 Oct 2016
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Learning: change in an organism"s behaviour or thought as a result of experience. Sensitization responding more strongly to the same stimulus over time. Most likely when stimulus is dangerous, irritating. Aplysia show sensitization as well as habituation. Habituation: process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli. Great deal of learning depends on associating one thing with another. British associationists believed we acquire all our knowledge by conditioning by forming associations among stimuli. Once connection is made, we only need one element to retrieve the other from memory. John stuart mill believed simple associations provide the mental building blocks for all of our more complex ideas. Most famous for work on digestion of the dog. Made an unexpected discovery about how animals learn. E. g. a metronome, a clicking pendulum that keeps time: unconditioned stimulus (ucs): stimulus that elicits an automatic response without prior conditioning. Unconditioned response (ucr): automatic response to an unconditioned stimulus.
