PSYC 325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Striatum, Basal Ganglia, Orbitofrontal Cortex
30 May 2015
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A group of brain structures, including the dorsal striatum and nucleus accumbens, that are important in learning voluntary responses. Addiction to a behaviour that produces reinforcement as well as cravings and withdrawal symptoms when the behaviour is prevented. Study of how organisms allocate their time and resources among possible options. In behavioural economics, the allocation of resources that maximizes subjective value or satisfaction. An operant conditioning technique in which organisms are gradually trained to execute complicated sequences of discrete responses. Reinforcement schedule in which the organisms can make any of several possible responses, each of which may lead to a different outcome reinforced according to a different reinforcement schedule. The height of the line drawn represents the number of responses that have been made (cumulatively) up to the present time. An operant conditioning paradigm in which the experimenter defines the beginning and end points of each trial.
