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Learning
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What is Learning? A relatively permanent change caused by experience –Learn about events themselves –Learn about relationships Permits adaptation to an ever-changing environment Simple forms of learning are shared with other animals
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Nonassociative Habituation (less responsive to an event over trials) Sensitization (more responsive to a event over trials or more responsive because we are aroused)
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Associative Learning Pavlovian/Classical (learning about the relationship between a signal and a biologically potent event) Instrumental/Operant (learning about the relationship between our own responses and their consequences)
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Pavlov’s Apparatus
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Classical Conditioning
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Changes Over Time in the Strength of a CR
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Stimulus Generalization
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Signaling of Biologically Potent Events Is the CR always similar to the UR? –Answer: CR not always a copy of UR opposite (drug tolerance)drug tolerance unrelated (freeze) Basic features –automatic and effortless, incremental, usually beneficial (expected versus spontaneous sex)expected Next
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Drug Tolerance and Conditioning Initial Response to Drug: relaxation, pain reduction, warmth, peacefulness, constipation
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Compensatory CRs Learned Response to Signals for Drug : agitation, pain, hypothermia, aggression, diarrhea
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Overdose Death Response to large dose unopposed by learned compensatory response causes death
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Siegel’s Result Back
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Benefits of Expected Sex Karen Hollis Link
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Benefits of Expected Sex
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Factors Timing (aka “when”) Predictability (aka “whether”) UCS Intensity CS Attention Biopreparedness (aka “marriage”) –e.g., conditioned taste aversionsconditioned taste aversions Higher-Order Conditioning (aka “guilt by association”)Higher-Order Conditioning
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“Guilt by Association”
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Some Applications of Classical Conditioning Phobias –Intense, irrational fears of objects or situations. –Systematic desensitization uses classical conditioning principles to extinguish fears. Taste aversion and chemotherapy Enuresis Advertising
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Garcia’s Experiment Back
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