PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Learning: refers to relative permanent change in behavior or potential to make responses that occur as a result of an experience. Maturation: refers to behaviors that become possible as physical capabilities develop. Learning that occurs when two stimuli- a conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus are paired and become associated with each other. Ivan pavlov example: dog example salivating before dog eats food. Different terminologies to know: neutral stimulus (ns) stimulus that before conditioning does not elect a particular response. Hearing of the buzzer: unconditional stimulus (ucs)- stimulus that automatically produces the response without any previous training. Bell (ns) food (ucs) dog (ucr) Acquisition: is the training stage of the conditioned phase. Influenced by: order in which cs and ucs are presented, no. of times cs and ucs are paired. Extinction: the reduction and eventual disappearance of behaviors. It happen when the cs is repeatedly presented alone. Spontaneous recovery: reappearance of after extinguished cr after passage of time.