PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Genetics can explain some behaviours, but we have more explaining to do. Learning: more-or-less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Operant response: behavioural act that has some effect on the environment. Someone with lock in syndrome smiling when u mention her husband. Not a contingency when she blinks when u say her name. Paradigm: ucs (uncondition stimulus) -> ucr uncondition response. Neutral stimulus can be changed to condition stimulus. Condition response is learned through conditioned stimulus. Conditioned taste aversion: when you have a bad experience with a food that you remember the same horrendous moment and will turn you off. Response that produces a satisfying effect in a particular situation becomes more likely to occur again in that situation. Responses that produce unsatisfying effects re less likely to occur again. + reinforcements: ex. smile, hug when child does chore. - reinforcements: ex. excuse child from chores. + punishment: ex. scold and assign other chores.