PSYC 356 Lecture 2: Learning lecture 2

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 356
• Professor: Bishop

Document Summary

Stimulus- an agent, action, or condition that elicits a physiological or psychological response: bug bite, seeing a shark, seeing a burrito, response- a unite of behavior; a discrete and usually reoccurring segment of behavior, ex. Itch, heart race, salivation: reflexes, elicited behavior - behavior that occur in response to specific environmental stimuli, simplest form of elicited, ex. Looking for a ( or to) mate: consummatory behaviors, end component of the sequence, often specific to a species, difficult to alter, examples of consummatory behaviors. Repeated stimulation: habituation and sensitization, descartes revisited, believed a stimulus will produce the same response every time ( this is false, elicited behaviors can change with repeated stimulation, habituation- decrease in response with repeated stimulation. Sensitization - increase in response with repeated stimulation: visual attention in infants, tests of visual attention in infants, baby seated in front of a screen.