PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Mary Cover Jones, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Psychosomatic Medicine
20 Apr 2013
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Our motives can be developed and directed simply through observation. Many motivated behaviours are acquired or directed by learning. Classical conditioning: neural stimulus gains a response from an organism because it has been associated with some other stimulus (usually automatically) elicited that response in the past. Dog experiment: he presented meat powder and a neural stimulus (a bell) together to the dog. The meat powder made the dog begin to salivate but after a few pairings of the bell and meat powder the bell alone began to make the dog salivate. Effect on behaviour is unlearned or automatic. Originally a neutral which develops a response. Learning was involved with response to cs. Organism is passive in the learning process (learning will happen whether we want it to or not) Some maladaptive behaviours are not a result of classical conditioning. Experiment to determine the dogs ability to discriminate between shapes of different objects.
