PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes -Psy, Pharmacology, Classical Conditioning
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Psy chap 7 notes: learning and behaviour. Habituation/classical conditoning: learning: the adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behaviour is changed by experience, performance: behavioural changes that are evidence learning has occurred. Orienting response: any response that directs the organism"s appropriate sensory organs (eyes, ears, nose) toward the source of the stimulus: habituation: learning not to respond to an unimportant reoccurring event, short-term habituation: simplest form of habituation, temporary. And the reaction to the stimulus will be evident the next day: long-term habituation: carries from day to day and even year to year, sudden sights and sounds that appear for the 1st time cause an automatic unlearned. Reaction: once this reaction has been experience a few times, it becomes classically conditioned. Like becoming frightened when scary music comes on in a horror flick: unlike habituation, classical conditioning involves learning about the conditions that predict that a significant event will occur.
