Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Todo Dec17 + Learning and Behavior Summary

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Summary:

Learning and Behavior

The Learning Triangle

S->S*-R (Pavlovian Learning, occasion setting, operant conditiong, habit learning


Learning and Adaptation

The main way animals can adapt through experience

Fixed action patterns

Behaviors that are triggered by stimuli known as releasers or “sign stimuli”

Do not depend on feedback once triggered

Smiling is a fixed action pattern?

Innate Behaviors

Very hard to prove... subtle learning can be going on with 'innate behaviors' that make them not so innate after all

artificial selection

Select for animals that show specific patterns... does it change them?

Innate behaviors can be modified by learning, or triggered by things which by themselves are not releasers

Habituation- strength of a response declines due to repeated exposure.

Learning has clear benefit in long term adaptation, but innate learning is important for stimuli in which the first time could be deadly


The Law of Effect


Good S*

Bad S*

Produces S*

Reward

(Behavior up)

Punishment

(behavior Down)

Prevents S*

Omission

(behavior up)

Avoidance(bad s* doesn't happen)

Escape(get away from already happening bad s*)

(behavior up)


Reinforcement

those behaviors which make the likeliness of a behavior increase.

Shaping

Reinforce increasingly close approximations of behavior

Can occur haphazardly in environment

Adaptation in classical Conditioning

Signals for food

Pavlovs dog

Prepares animal for digestions

Taste aversion learning

learn things that signal bad foods

Conditioned with signals for danger

Freezing

Adaptive response, that conditions from innate stimuli to others

Analgesia... don't notice being hurt

Drugs as S*

associating the S* drug with the S cues from the environment

Conditioned compensatory response... resilience against the drug

May be the cause for drug tolerannce

Impressive amount of evidence for role of conditioning (Siegel, 1975), (Crowell, Hinson, & Siegel 1981), (Mansfield and Cunningham, 1980)

(Paulos, Wilkinson, and Cappell, 1981)

(King, Boutoun, & Musty, 1987)

Sign tracking


Good S*

Bad S*

S predicts S*

Approach S

Withdraw from S

S predicts no S*

Withdraw from S

Approach S

Other parallels between signal and repsonse learning

Believed that both follow general patterns or rules

Extinction occurs in both instrumental and classical conditioning

Crucial in shaping and creating behaviors

acquisition... opposite of extinction, describes both instrumental and classical

Exposure therapy

expose the client to a fear stimulus without an aversive consequence

Spontaneous recovery

extincion does not get rid of learning, merely makes it less likely response

What an animal does does not show what it knows

The timing of S*

Occurs after only a short delay from either R or S

Learning is designed to uncover “causes” of S*

Size of S*

Large positive S*s lead to stronger overall behavior

The stronger an aversive S* is, the stronger the punishment

Preparedness

the same combination of events are learend more readily than others

Animals behave as if evolution has “prepared them to associate certain events or stimuli(Rozin and kalat, 1971), (Breland and Brleand, 1961)

The nuts and bolts of conditioning

Basic Pavlovian Learning

CS ->CR

US->UR

UR=CR

Higher order conditoing- same procedure, but old US is used as new CS

sensory preconditioning

two US are paried, then one is associated with S*

Methods for studying classical conditiong

Eyeblink conditioning in rabits (gormezano, kehoe, and marshall, 1983)

easy to measure, typically considered innate

Fear conditioning in rats

condtioned suprresion/conditioned emotional response(CER)

Suppresion ratio... how much an animal stops responding due to fear

Autoshaping in pigeons

pigeons peck keylights which signal food

Taste aversion learning in rats

Things that affect the strength of conditioning

Time

Delay conditiong.

cs comes then ends with presentation of of US

Trace conditionining

CS and US seperated by a gap

Simultaneous conditioning

Presented at the same time... hard to measure hwo much subject learns

Backwards conditioning

CS follows, rather than preceds, the S

Can act as a conditioned inhibitor

Spaced trials are better than massed trial

Time in CS and time between trials equal

Novelty of CS and US

The more novel, the more learning that occurs

Preexposure effect

Latent inhibition

Intensity of CS and US

The more salient the more effect

if they are too strong, they can elicit their own responses

Pseudoconditiong

sensitization

Conditioned inhibition

CS associated with Absence of US = inhibitor

How to test

Summation

amount of responding is decreased or increased

Retardation-of-Aqcuisition

inhibitor cannot be converted into an excitor easily

How to produce

Discriminative inhibtion

One CS is paired with US, one paired with no US, second one is inhibitor

conditioned inhibition

A is paired with B, AX is paired with no B... x signals no B

Information value in conditioning

CS-US contingencies in classical conditioning

Pairing alone is not enough to induce conditioning

CS has to predict an increase in the probability of the US (positive contigency)

If it predicts a decrease, it becomes an inhibitor(negative contingency)

Blocking and Unblocking

learning only occurs when CS provides new information about US... redundant information is not learned

Relative Vailidity

Subjects learn about the best predictiors of the US

Theories of Conditiong

The Rescorla-Wagner Model

Suprisingness... learning occurs on a conditioning trail only if the US is suprising

Overexpectation effect

The role of attention in conditioning

the amount of attention a subject will pay to a cs depends on how well CS predicts US

Mackintosh model

More attention given to better predictors

Pearce hall model

More attention given to CS who's meanings are not understood

Short term memory

Priming of a stimuli reduces surprise

Habituation

Caused by background context (long term memory)

Caused by self generated priming (short term memory)

SOP model

A1 A2, inactive

AESOP model

Sensory vs. emtoional US nodes

Emotional nodes move slower between A1-A2-inactive

Elemental vs. configural CS nodes

Configural elemnts replace old elemnts

Whatever happened to behavior Anyway

Memory and learning

How well is conditioning remembered?

Conditioning can be retained supringly well over time

Some forms of conditiong are forgotten more quickly than others

Memory reactivition... reexposure to original situation

Causes of Forgetting

Trace decay

interference

retrieval failure

Remembering, forgetting, and extinction

interference and retrieval may play an important role

renewal ffect

shows extintion does not necessarily mean old memory is gone

The modulation of behavior

occasion setting

a cue that provides information about whether another cs will be paired with a US



Three properties of occasion setters

They modulate the behavior that is otherwise evoked by the target

they are not affected much by changing their direct associations with the US

they do not always affect responding to ew stimuli

Behavior systems

sets of behaviors that are organized around biological functions and goals

Hierarchically organized

different “modes” of responding

affecting panic attacks

Preparatory vs. panic (pre-encounter vs. circa strike)

Taste aversion learning

The “hedonic shift”

good foods elicit different behaviors than bad foods

Verbal instructions can have a powerful effect on learning

Schedules of reinforcement... to maximize different things

The matching law

The quantitative law of effect

The more positive choices you have, the less likely you'll make a negative choice

Impulsiveness and self control

Pre-commitement strategies

Distraction

behavioral economics

substitutes-increase to decrease other behavior

independents

complements-decrerase to decrease other behavior

Theories of reinforcement

The premack principle

If a consequent behavior is more preffered than it's antecedent, it will be a reinforcer

Behavioral regulation

If a behavior is below it's preferred level, it will be a reinforcer.

State dependant learning

only take food if you know that food fills hungry void

learning to calibrate based on need

Learning to like certain things

learning to dislike certain things?

Anticpating reward and punnishment

negative and positive conrast effect

Initial explaratory effect

Frustration reaction

Overjustification effect

happens if:

Tangible

announced ahead of time

not dependant on performance (expectations and interpersonal context)... self determination theory

Partial reinforcement extinction effect

robert eisenberger-learned industriousness

sequential theory

transfer of control (inhibtory CS's to the state change the actual response, as to excitatory)

Using Anchors... how to create inhibitory responses?

Consumatory vs. prepatory responsee (go vs. know, motivational)

Occasion setting

Opponent process theory

emotions happen, then afterwords have the opposite reaction

Is it learned?

Self generated vs. retrieval generated priming

Massed trials create temporary wanting, spaced trials create long term wanting

Drug users may be wannting something before they need it

There is a difference between wanting and liking


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