Week 11 Biological Dispositions in Learning Flashcards
_____________: An innate biological tendency to learn certain types of associations more easily
Preparedness
______ conditioning: an inherited predisposition to fear some stimuli more than others (a snake more than a rock)
Fear conditioning
_______ _________ conditioning: a form of classical conditioning in which a food item that has been paired with gastrointestinal illness becomes a conditioned aversive stimuli
taste aversion conditioning
Preparedness features consistent with other types of classical conditioning:
- Gen_________
- Ex__________
- Ov_________
Generalisation; Extinction; Overshadowing
P__________ can explain why phobias are so easily acquired
preparedness
In taste aversion, S_________ G____________ can occur when food items that taste similar to the aversive item are also perceived as aversive
Stimulus Generalisation
_____-_______ conditioning of taste aversions is higher adaptive so there is no repeat to poisonous substances
One-trial conditioning
CS-US __________: an innate tendency to more readily associate certain types of stimuli with each other
CS-US relevance
(Men/Women) are more prone to developing taste aversions
Women
What is the evidence for biological constraints in operant conditioning?
Avoidance behaviours
__________ responses are not operants but rather elicited behaviours
Avoidance responses
Aversive stimuli elicit SSDRs. what are they?
Species-specific defence reactions
A rats natural reaction to fear is to _________
freeze
I_______ D______: When a classically conditioned behaviour pattern interferes with an operant behaviour that was being reinforced
Instinctive Drift
S___ T_________: an organism approaches a stimulus that signals the presentation of an appetitive event
Sign Tracking