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| controlled at spinal cord by a two neuron pathway (receptor => motor) |
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| innate behavioral responses to specific patterns of stimulation |
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| stimulus that elicits the behavior of a fixed action pattern |
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| Reticular Activating System |
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| startle response; cocktail party effect |
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| – repeated stimulation results in decreased responsiveness; simplest learning pattern |
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| Classical (Pavlovian) Conditioning |
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association b/w normally autonomic response with an environment stimulus
• Unconditioned stimulus (food); unconditioned response (salivation)
• Neutral Stimulus (becomes conditioned stimulus); conditioned reflex |
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| animal rewarded for certain behavior; much MORE likely to repeat behavior; likely to result in normal habit forming |
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| rewarded for LACK of certain behavior; LESS likely to repeat behavior; negative connection b/w action and reward |
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| conditioning so that an organism will stop exhibiting a given behavior; organism is LESS likely to repeat response |
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| Extinction gradual elimination of response; “unlearning" |
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| environmental patterns/ objects presented to a developing organism during the “critical period” become accepted permanently as an element of their behavior; ex duckling |
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| time periods during early development when organism is able to develop specific behavioral patterns |
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| trigger a reversible behavioral change in the recipient |
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| produce long term behavioral/ physiological alterations in recipient |
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