Lecture 8 Associative Learning

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Behavioural Neuroscience Flashcards on Lecture 8 Associative Learning, created by jessica.neilan on 14/11/2013.
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In animals how can "insight" be explained in terms of the learning curve? An accumulation of increasing associative strength
what is a true discrimination? When a conditional stimulus perfectly predicts the unconditional stimulus
what is pseudo-discrimination? when no cues present can be used to accurately predict when the unconditional stimulus will occur
what is the orienting response used for? as a measure of attention that an animal is paying to a stimulus
what can conditionability of a stimulus (how quickly an animal learns about a stimulus) provide an index for? how much attention is being paid to the stimulus
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