PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Coffeemaker, Sexual Arousal, Psychopathy
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Think of the smell of freshly baked cookies, and who or what. Our ability to link stimuli together provides evolutionary advantages. Learning: process where behaviour/knowledge changes as a result of experience: whatever is done to acquire new information. This process is known as cognitive learning: we also learn through associative learning. Pavlov studied digestions, using dogs as model species. Noticed salivation prior to presentation of meat powder. Consider possibility that digestive processes where more than (cid:1) reflexes in response to food: salivary response is learned, known as psychic secretions. Present sound from metronome, and then presented meat powder to dogs at set intervals after pairing sound with food metronome itself could elicit salivation. Classical conditioning: learning when a stimulus elicits response originally caused by another stimulus: neutral stimulus = tone. W/ repeated pairings, tone predicted meat powder. Gradually, tone creates salivation: also known as pavlovian conditioning, foundation of behaviourism.
