PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Classical Conditioning, Associationism, Hard Wired

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Michael Hardt

Document Summary

Psyc100 lecture 19 (tuesday,6th november) (cont. : how learning occurs: Associationism: main intellectual view about how things are learnt even today. Temporal contiguity: cause usually occurs fairly close to its effect (pavlov and his. Identify causes by what is inside your brain rather than what is outside dog model) Spatial contiguity: things are in the same general space, more likely to be associated than if they"re apart from each other. Appropriateness: not every association occurs with temporal contiguity. If a tone was paired with an illness, no aversion developed to tone. Appropriateness of stimuli in some sense is hard wired (rat developed aversion to flavour because its related to taste and therefore sickness: s-s learning with s-r learning (habit learning): Habit learning can sometimes cause problems imagine if a video game controller"s switches are changed. The cs is directly related to ur (so in pavlov dog example, tone(bell) is paired to salivation)