PSYC 2600H Chapter 5: Chapter 5
8 Mar 2018
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Chapter 5 classical conditioning: underlying processes and practical applications. Instead of jumping like it would when it gets the shock. Ns us ur: heroin-related cues increased blood pressure. Cs cr: having the compensatory responses occur before the us is presented, it will be even more effective in minimizing the disturbance produced by the us. (maintaining homeostasis, has important implications for drug addiction. Motivated by a tendency to avoid the symptoms of withdrawal which are essentially the compensatory response to the effect of the drug: heroin-related cues: relaxation effect compensatory agitation (from heroin) Ns us ur: heroin-related cues compensatory agitation. Rescorla-wagner theory: proposes that a given us can support only so much conditioning, and amount of conditioning must be distributed among the various css that are present. Tone (v = 10) salivation (v) will stand for associative value of the cs (which at the start of conditioning is 0).
