PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Metar, Discrimination Learning, Conditioned Taste Aversion

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

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Learning is a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience. Associative learning although much information may pass through the dog"s brain, in pavlov"s experiments on classical conditioning an association was made between the tone and the food. (pavlov used a metronome as well as other devices for presenting sounds. Conditioning and synapses during conditioning, weak synapses re at the same time as related strong synapses. The simultaneous activity strengthens the connections in the weaker synapse. Acquisition is the initial phase of learning in which a response is established; thus, in classical condition- ing, acquisition is the phase in which a neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with the us. Acquisition, extinction, and spontaneous recovery acquisition of a conditioned response occurs over repeated pairings of the cs and the us. If the us no longer occurs, con- ditioned responding diminishes a process called extinction.