Associative Learning

Question 1

Reinforcement learning

Answer 1

Animals aquire complex behaviours by learning to obtain rewards and avoid punishment

Question 2

Classical conditioning

Answer 2

A neutral stimulus becomes associated with a reflex

Eg pavlovs dogs

Question 3

Operant conditioning

Answer 3

Reward for correct outcome

Eg. Skinner box

Animal doesn’t know what action in immediate past led to reward

Question 4

When a mistake is made during operant conditioning:

Answer 4

There is no information about its nature

Animal only knows reward is absent

Question 5

Association comes from

Answer 5

Exploration followed by reward

Repetition of rewarded behaviour

Question 6

Thorndike’s law of effect

Answer 6

Responses to the same situation will be more firmly connected when closely followed by satisfaction so that when the situation reoccurs, so does the behaviour

Question 7

Rescorla-Wagner rule

Answer 7

Associative learning occurs because cooccurance is unanticipated on the basis of current associative strength

Question 8

80% of brains dopamine comes from

Answer 8

Substantia nigra

Question 9

Dopamine influx can influence

Answer 9

Medial spinite neurons

Question 10

Rats learn to press a lever that applies stimulation to their own _______________. This substitutes for ______________.

Pressing rate increases in response to intensity of __________ stimulation until ______________.

Answer 10

Substantia nigra
Food reward
Substantia nigra
It reaches optimal stimulation

Question 11

Dopamine cells fire in response to

Answer 11

Unpredicted rewards/ stimulus presentation.