PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Nucleus Accumbens, Adaptive Learning

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Claire Scavuzzo

Document Summary

Cc leads to avoidance of smells and tastes associated with nausea. Long delay between cs (taste) and usc (nausea) More readily associate nausea with taste than stimuli of other modalities (visual, auditory) Do not associate fear with taste, but fear with visual or auditory. Adaptive learning avoid dangerous foods ingested hours earlier. Chemotherapy use scapegoat foods prior to treatment novel tasting candy. Tendency of animals to return to innate behaviours following repeated reinforcement. Can"t fully understand learning unless account for innate biological influences. Limits what we can train animals to do. Experience prepares learning systems enriched environment. Thinking is covert behaviour, that is not observable. Not just determined by learning histories how we have been trained to act. Response depends on what the stimulus means to the organism. Perceived contingency best predictor of behavior, what you think. Wolfgang kohler posing problems to chimps in canary islands. Aha reactions didn"t appear to use trial and error.