PSYC 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Taco Bell, Belongingness
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Us pre-exposure effect: familiarity with a us alone slows cs development to the us: example: if you are prone to gi issues, bad burritos will less likely cause taste aversion. Associative interference: pre-exposure makes stimuli less able to make new subconscious associations: inhibitory context (restaurant) may signal safety. Restaurant you have gone to a lot and never had a bad experience you associate that restaurant as a safe place to eat. Example: taco bell as a conditioned inhibitor (cs-) Memory interference: conditioning is disrupted by conscious memory of the. Cs or us: you know that at other times you didn"t get sick. Example: ms. quail with head looks more natural, so male quail more attracted to that stimulus. Sickness after eating poisonous foods: flavor and illness created a strong relationship to taste inversion, interoceptive (internal, part of same system) cues belong together. Peripheral pain after sensing a predator: external stimuli seeing, hearing and smell predator, exteroceptive cues belong together.
