Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Chemotherapy, Implicit Memory, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

Biology and learning, cognition and learning, observational learning, memory, Behaviourism: assumed that any behaviour that an organism could physically perform could be conditioned. Tabula rasa -> all behaviours are equally likely at birth. It"s only through reinforcement/punishment that we become more/less likely to perform specific behaviours. Biological preparedness: directly opposes the above assumption, says that behaviour is influenced by evolution. Organisms are born pre-wired to learn certain behaviours/associations related to survival: you can teach a rat to press a button but you can"t teach a rat to peck a button. Recall taste aversions : cs produces symptoms of nausea. E. g. smell of food (cs) + chemotherapy (ucs) In evolutionary history, eating certain foods would be the most common cause of nausea. Demonstration of preparedness classical conditioning study (garcia: all rats exposed to 3 potential cs (all at same time) Results: rats that were made ill avoided to sweet water.