Learning and Motivation
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- Reflex
- stereotyped pattern of movement of a part of the body that can be reliably elicited by presenting appropriate stimulus
- fixed (modal) action pattern
- behavioral sequence performed instinctively like courtship, offspring rearing, food seeking behavior
- Sign stimulus
- anything that triggers modal action pattern
- Who discovered imprinting
- Conrad Lawrence
- motivation
- temporary change in behavior, results from temporary changes in internal/external states
- Definition of learning
- relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience in environment
- Name types of learning
- cognitive (knowledge), motor (skills), social (responding to social situations), emotional, physical (condition endorphin release)
- Name process that requires maturation, motivation and learning
- learning language
- 2 types of non associative learning
- habituation and sensitization
- Define habituation
- decrease in behavior due to repeated exposure
- What is main distinguishing characteristic of habituation
- stimulus specific
- course of habituation
- lasts longer then sensitization, tends to be cumulative
- effect of stimulus intensity on habituation
- better habituation with less intnese stimulus
- Sensitization
- opposite of habituation, increase in responding due to increased exposire to stim.
- Name characteristics of sensitization
- less stim. specific, tends to be temporary, more intense stimulus
- Who developed opponent process theory
- Richard Solomon and John COrbit at 1974
- Opponent process theory
- homeostatic process of processses a and b