PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 07: Pharmacology, Escape Response, Reinforcement
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Learning: an adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behavior is changed by experience. Performance: the behavioral change produced by the internal changes brought about by learning. Orienting response: any response by which an organism directs appropriate sensory organs (eyes, ears, nose) toward the source of a novel stimulus. Habituation: the simplest form of learning; learning not to respond to an unimportant event that occurs repeatedly. George humphrey (1933): experiment with snails, tapped plate. The simplest form of habituation is temporary, and is known as shote term habituation. Animals, particularly those that have more complex nervous systems, are capable of long term habituation (hunting dog). Evidence that short + long are produced by different neural mechanisms. Experiment with dog- showed that a neural stimulus can elicit a response similar to the original reflex when the stimulus predicts the occurrence of a significant stimulus.
