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What is learning?

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A relatively permanent change in behaviour

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Are learning and memory closely related?

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YES

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What does learning need to be?

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INFERRED from behaviour

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What is a behaviour?

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An observable action

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What are some examples of learning?

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Learning a sport, driving, operating your smartphone

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What is an Innate behaviour?

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Behaviours that we already know how to do

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What are some examples of innate behaviours?

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a baby crying when hungry, some reflexes

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What is a reflex?

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An AUTOMATIC “stimulus-respons” behaviour (mostly to suppoer survival)

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Whats an example of a reflex?

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What happens when you touch something very hot

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What are the three types of learning learnt in this psychology?

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  1. Pavlovian conditioning (aka classical)
  2. Operant conditioning (aka instrumental)
  3. Social (aka vicarious)
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Pavlovian conditioning

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Classical conditioning

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Operant conditioning

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Social

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Latent learning

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HIDDEN, anything you have learned that you can produce later on without really remembering

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Biological constraints on learning and example

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biology limits learning
eg. animals cannot learn to speak

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Who was the russian physiologist who created classical conditioning?

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Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)

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What was his work later used for as a base? for who?

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John Watson and BF skinner

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What did Pavlov study?

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Animal behaviour - specifically dogs

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What happened when Pavlov put on his lab coat?

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Dogs started drooling

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Conditioning =

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= Learning

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Stimulus is anything in the environment as long as it…

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is detectable
is measurable
causes a response

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what does unconditional stimulus cause?

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unconditional response - reflex

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Before conditioning, what was the lab coat considered as?

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Neutral stimulus

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After conditioning what did the lab coat become?

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The conditional stimulus

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What is the stimuli that changes after conditioning?
The neutral stimulus becomes the conditional stimulus
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What is Ordinal Methods?
The order of presentation of stimuli
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What are the abbreviations for Unconditional stimulus Unconditional response Neutral stimulus Conditional stimulus Conditional response
Unconditional stimulus = UCS Unconditional response = UCR Neutral stimulus = NS Conditional stimulus = CS Conditional response = CR
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What is an example of excitatory pavlovian conditioning?
Thunder and lightning
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What are the ways that excitatory pavlovian conditioning happen?
1. Short delay 2. Long delay 3. Trace conditioning 4. simultaneous conditioning 5. Backward conditioning
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Short delay
very little time between CS and UCS - MOST EFFECTIVE TYPE
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Long delay
Time between warning and tornado is quite long
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Trace conditioning
CS and UCS seem unrelated due to LONG DELAY
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Simultaneous conditioning
Lightning (CS) and thunder (UCS) occur together - Called "inhibitory" conditioning
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Backward conditioning
Thunder (UCS) happens before lighting (CS)
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Superstition
Pavlovian conditioning is the cause to this!
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Taste aversion learning
Eat a food and then become sick sometime later. Later on, even the sight of that food can make you feel sick
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Pavlovian Extinction (loss of association)
Eg. Pavlov ringing bell without food for a few days - The strength of the response would decrease
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Spontaneous Recovery
If after the Extinction phase there is a pause, you can see that the conditioned behaviour did not completely disappear
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Conditioned Fear
Pavlovian conditioning can develop fear
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What are two examples of Conditioned fear in our society today?
Horror films, video games
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Conditioning of certain traumatic events - loud, big events
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Symptoms of PTSD
Intense fear, nightmares, panic attacks, anxiety disorder, pain
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What is a problem with PTSD? (2 things)
1. Extinction isn't enough - fear is biologically relevant 2. creating a safety signal or new conditioning of noise doesn't work in this population
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Who were the people that studied whether people could learn to NOT be afraid during conditioning of these stimuli?
Jovanovic and colleagues in 2010
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Did the Safety signal experiment in 2010 work?
No, it was a failed experiment
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What was the Safety Signal experiment?
Showing the two different coloured boxes, one with a negative stimulus and one with a positive/safe stimulus
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Evaluative Conditioning
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What is an example of evaluative conditioning?
- homeowners will sometimes bake fresh cookies for an open house hoping that visitors will be more likely to buy the house
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