PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Conditioning, Mental Representation, 18 Months
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It doesn"t matter what the animal thinks: mental representation is not a way to understand how they behave, the upper bullets are false, can learning really be fully understood without considering the animal"s thoughts or expectations, no. Mental representation matters: you have to think about what an animal is predicting or expecting. Classical conditioning often involves forming an expectation: ex: in classical conditioning. The tone comes before presentation of unconditioned stimulus. And after the reflux response is there (saliva) Timing does matter (but it doesn"t matter according to behaviorists) If the tone comes before meat powder, if they"re the same time, or after meat powder the tone allows the animal to predict and expectation that the food is coming this expectation causes its behavior. 1: they said learning is gradual that there has to be repeated pairings between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus in classical conditioning, or between action and reward/punishment for instrumental condition.
