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Learning & Behavior 4
Contingency learning, CTA, and the Placebo Effect
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
05/26/2014

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social learning can lead to the
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placebo effect
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the same therapeutic outcome can be achieved
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with partial reinforcement (lower doses of an active treatment)
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partial reinforcement is more
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resistent to extinction
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what are the two theories for placebo effects?
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Expectancy (Kirsch) and Classical Conditioning (Wickramasekera)
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what theory assumes that there is extinction for the placebo effect
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classical condition (the CS on its own will weaken the CS-US association)
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what theory assumes that there is NOT extinction for the placebo effect
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expectancy (response expectancies are self-reinforcing)
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placebo effects in the direction of suggestion independent of what the conditioning was
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for pain (conscious)
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placebo effects only when there is conditioning even when there is contradictory evidence from the suggestion
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for hormones (nonconscious)
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Benedetti found that
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suggestion outweighs conditioning
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Expectancy theory
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suggestion and experience create response expectancies & they can produce placebo effects in and of themselves
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Classical conditioning theory
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through repeated context (CS) and drug (US) pairings, the context acquires the ability to elicit a therapeutic effect (CR) in and of itself
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the placebo effect is a
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learned response which involves conscious and unconscious thinking
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expectancy and conditioning together
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produced a stronger placebo effect than separately
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Conditioning outweighs
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expectancy
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pain decreases much sooner when
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subject was informed/aware
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demand characteristics
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a kind of reporting bias where a subject feels like they need to provide some kind of response that the experimenter is looking for
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criterion shift
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a kind of reporting bias where we rate symptoms differently in the presence of others
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behavioral changes
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do not account for the placebo effect (maid example)
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Hawthorne effect
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the act of being observed can affect behavior
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Natural history
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duration of illness, occasionally will have spontaneous remission or random fluctuations but generally is a bell curve
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Mistaken Placebo Effect
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illness follow the same course of its natural history; placebo has no effect
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Real Placebo Effect
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illness follows shortened course as a result of the placebo
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Inert Placebos
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sugar pill & saline injection
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Active Placebos
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drugs that mimic side effects of active actual drugs
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Nocebo effect
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negative expectancies & negative outcomes
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Placebo effect
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positive expectancies & positive outcomes
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4 sensory receptors that contribute to flavor are
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taste, odor, texture, and trigeminal
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orthonasally
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via nostrils
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retronasally
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via channel at the back of the throat
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hedonic reactions to odors are
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learned, not innate
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flavor is determined mostly by
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retronasal learning
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only humans have both nausea-based taste aversion and
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cognition taste aversion
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social learning is important for
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acquiring flavor preferences/aversions (rats/humans)
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only humans appear to develop preferences for
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initially high aversive tastes (chilli/tonic)
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sucrose pre-exposure strengthens sweetness-calorie association so that this blocks
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flavor-calorie learning (rats learn that sweetness is associated with nutrients, not almond flavoring)
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when rats are pre-exposed to saccharin, they are more likely to
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learn that flavor is associated with nutrients (latent inhibition for calories so weakens overshadowing for flavor by weakness)
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non-nutritive sweeteners weaken
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sweet-calorie associations so that individuals compensate less fully after eating sweet foods
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groups with saccharin often
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eat more and gain more weight
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accurate recall of
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color-taste (contingency learning)
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inaccurate recall of
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flavor-taste
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evaluative learning
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AKA hedonic learning, occurs without awareness, doesn't extinguish, depends on contiguity between CS & US but not contingency
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most humans and mammals react positively to
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sweet (sugars)
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all react positively to salt
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when sodium deprived but not otherwise
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bitter tastes detect
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alkaloids, many of which are poisonous
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food becomes acidic as they deteriorate so many animals dislike
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sour tasting foods
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John Garcia
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discovered CTA AKA Garcia effect
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bait shyness
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when an animal ingests a poisonous substance and avoids consuming it again; WW2 rat example
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radiation-induced sickness
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disturbed eating in rats after Hiroshima
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skin-defense system
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protection from outside harm
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gut-defense system
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protection from inside harm (over-ingesting toxins)
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animals that only eat one safe food should not
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show food aversion learning (vampire bats)
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stimulus-selectivity in CTA
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sickness associated with tastes but hardly with audio-visual: for effects to occur, must be the same sense (flashing light/buzzing noise & shock or lithium and saccharin)
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long delay learning
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requires strong, novel taste followed by intense sickness
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long delay learning can be prevented by
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interference from other tastes (overshadowing)
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1-trial learning depends on
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the stimulus being novel and strong, very adverse (life or death) - very rarely happens...cause they will die
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pre-exposure retards
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conditioning (latent inhibition)
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Garcia "gate" hypothesis
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taste switches odor into the gut-defense system, learns bad smelling things will probably be poisonous
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2nd order conditioning whereby odor & taste become
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strongly associated so that odor "reminds" the animal of the averted taste; converse to Garcia "gate" hypothesis
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only upper gastro-intestinal illness conditions
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show disgust
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lower gastro-intestinal illness
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does not show disgust, instead learns to avoid things that cause this illness; CTA
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taste reactivity test shows
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"gaping" in rats (basically incipient vomit response)
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independence of CTA from cognition is
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especially high in humans
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contiguity
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time between experiences must be fast
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contingency
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order of experiences must be consistent
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perception of causation arises from
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contiguity of events
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our sensory input contains
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no direct information about causation (we must deduce this ourselves)
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naive physics
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apply previous knowledge and experience (example of the ball in a C with the ball continuing in a circular motion - false)
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contingency judgement
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to what extent does performance of action dictate an outcome?
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overestimation of causation particularly when the
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probability of the outcome is already high
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symbolic computation
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sequences of events are transformed to conceptual entities via cognitive operations (identifying cause/effects)
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animals may not understand causation but
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can learn to anticipate outcomes
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"associationism"
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consequences are "brought to mind" by association
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high deltaP
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lever press likely to lead to food, no lever press unlikely to lead to food
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low deltaP
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lever press and no lever press equally likely to lead to food
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Dickinson, Shanks, & Eveden - tank experiment
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groups that were "blocked" had more accurate ratings in comparison to controls...whatever
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retrospective revaluation
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typically weaker than "forward" effects, especially in more complex tasks...."backward" blocking....
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forward and backward blocking are enhanced by
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encouraging assumptions of outcome additivity
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generalization on
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basis of meaning (semantics vs. phonetics - semantics wins)
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awareness may be unnecessary for conditioning if
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the US immediately follows the CS+
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delay conditioning
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CS & US overlap
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trace conditioning
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US begins at the end of the CS
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delay conditioning occurs in
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aware, unaware, and amnesiacs...probably because they are overlapping
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trace conditioning only occurs
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when the participant is aware
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awareness testing is highly complex and
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difficult to replicate...not the best experiment
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there is not overly convincing evidence that conditioning can occur wihtout
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awareness...this is related to the fact that it is difficult to determine what is or is not "aware"
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declarative memory
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consists of semantic and episodic memory; supports CONSCIOUS retrieval of facts and events
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semantic memory
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facts
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episodic memory
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events
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non-declarative memeory
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consists of skills, priming, dispositions, and nonassociative memory; "procedural" memory, automatic, unconscious, skill acquisition and conditioned motor skills
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non-declarative skills
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motor, cognitive, perceptual and adaption levels
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non-declarative priming
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perceptual and semantic, biases in judgement and preferences
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non-declarative dispositions
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simple classical conditioning
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non-declarative nonassociative
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habituation & sensitization
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"Hebbian" synapses
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learning via co-activation
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Non-propositional learning
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BOTTOM-UP: co-activation, "Hebbian synapses', doesn't involve symoblic representation, CS-US links generate behavior, doesn't require conscious expectancy or control of action
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Propositional learning
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TOP-DOWN: symbolic, implies conceptual processing of events, stimuli --> cognitive operations (symbolic though) --> knowledge in memory
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single-process models of learning
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propositional, learned responses are mediated by conscious expectancy...you only show a conditioned response if there is a conscious expectancy
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process dissociation
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a single (propositional) process could account for vast majority of the data...great
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The "Perruchet" effect
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best evidence that conditioned responding may not be governed by conscious predictions, eye blink conditioning,
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many forms of learned behavior are controlled by the
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explicit beliefs of the individual including conscious cognitive processes
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