PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Organism, Ice Cream, Aversion Therapy

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jaime Palmer

Document Summary

Process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities. Leaning is personal adaptation persistent change within. Habituation: decrease in the strength of a response to a repeated stimulus. One stimulus elicits a respond that was originally elicited by the other stimulus. Ex: someone flushes the toilet while you"re having a shower, the water turns scalding hot (stimulus 1), you jump out (response). You start to jump back as soon as you hear the toilet flushing (stimulus 2): response reflex of action. Studying salivary responses in digestion in dogs. Pavlov"s students noticed that the dogs would start to salivate before the bell was struck. Bell rings & steak -> dog salivates. Neutral stimulus and still a unconditioned stimulus the. Give the stimulus a higher intensity value. When the ucs is aversive, often only one pairing is required for conditioning to occur. You can form a negative association right away.