PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Aversion Therapy, Classical Conditioning, Mohair
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There is room for error in constructing memories. People suffering from down syndrome have a higher incidence rate of developing early onset. Learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior caused by experience or practice. External experiences form personality and who you are. Assume that there are laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms. Learning is explained in terms of directly observable events. Personal adaptation: focuses on how an organism"s behavior changes in response to environmental stimuli. Habituation: a decrease in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus: after realizing it"s not a threat anymore o. Won the nobel prize for his work on digestion in dogs (1904) Remembered for his experiments on basic learning process. Starts with a neutral stimulus (something that wouldn"t elicit a salivating response from a dog) o. Meat: when dog sees the food, he salivates. Pavlov paired neutral stimulus with unconditioned stimulus o.
