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PSYCO 381 Midterm 1 Chap 1 questionswell answered to pass
Importance in Human and non-human parallels - correct answer ✔✔Animals and humans have to solve
the same problems with our brains and neurons, we have developed similarly
Learning is - correct answer ✔✔acquiring new information, then making a response or withholding a
response
AntLion Larvae - correct answer ✔✔the learning group learned to predict that food would be available,
control group did not, result was the learning group growing larger than the control group.
Why do we use models - correct answer ✔✔they are simpler (less neurons), easier to control, are less
monet
General Processes Approach - correct answer ✔✔S. Shettleworth
Search for commonalities
Formulate general rules that exist across all animals
Big 3 of Learning - correct answer ✔✔Habituation, Classical Conditioning/Associative
Conditioning/Pavlovian Conditioning, Instrumental/Operant conditioning
Habituation - correct answer ✔✔The animal eventually ceases to respond to a repeated event.
Class example: habituation of a rat being startled
Classical/Pavlovian/Associative Conditioning - correct answer ✔✔The relations between events become
predictive. Unlearned behaviors become associated with previously neutral stimuli
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