PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: B. F. Skinner, Classical Conditioning, Tuning Fork

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Luke Clark

Document Summary

Why don"t phobias extinguish? the phobic person avoids the cs dog in distance > anxiety > avoid run away > anxiety subsides. Schedules of reinforcement two factors to consider: interval and ration. Measuring dopamine in the synapse, in the nucleus accumbent (part of the basal ganglia) if you give it amphetamine you get an increase of basal release by 100% they hit the system way more a ectively. Dopamine neurons (in the midbrain) signal unexpected rewards and css that predict reward.