Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fixed Action Pattern, Neural Adaptation, Ethology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

Document Summary

Learning process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities (knowing how). Habituation & sensitization: involve a change in behavior that results from repeated exposure to a single stimulus. Classical conditioning: (associative learning) when 2 stimuli become associated with each other. (see dog = fear) Operant conditioning: we learn to associate our responses with specific consequences. (smilin. Can view learning as a process of personal adaptation to the ever-changing circumstance of our lives. Behaviorists focus on how organisms learn, examining the processes by which the experience influences behavior. Assumed there are laws of learning for all organisms. Adaptive significance how behaviour influences an organism"s chances for survival. Fixed action pattern unlearned response automatically triggered by a particular stimulus. Personal adaptation (behaviorists) behaviour is influenced by immediate environment and by capabilities that have been acquired through experience.