PSYC 2P45 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Classical Conditioning, Saccharin, Cerebellum
20 Oct 2016
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We can predict our environments, which is what classical conditioning is about. Ivan pavlov russian physiologist: history of classical conditioning, serendipity, psychic secretions. Used to study association: association, orosensory stimuli, object learning. In 5 month olds: learning was more evident in session 2, engram biological memory, thompson lowered tiny electrodes into different parts of the brain, neural activity in hippocampus, responsible circuit is in the cerebellum. Food present due to a specific sign (for animals) Food conditioning: taste-aversions and taste-preferences, taste-aversion, pairing of food with illness, goes against rational thought, give rats radiation (makes them sick) after saccharin water, one trial learning, long-delay learning, evaluative conditioning, advertising. Review: classical conditioning - ivan pavlov - history of classical conditioning, psychic secretions - association, object learning, mechanism - unconditional stimulus, conditional stimulus, unconditional. Response, conditional response: watson, conditioned suppression, conditioned emotional response, suppression ratio, engram biological memory, sign tracking (autoshaping, food conditioning taste-aversions and taste-preferences, evaluative conditioning.
