Innate Behavior Patters, Habituation, and Basic Classical Conditioning Terms



Innate Behavior Patterns
 Reflex
 Tropism
  kinesis (undirected)
  taxis (directed)
 Fixed Action Pattern
  species-specific; unlearned; goes to completion
 Reaction Chain



Habituation
A decrease in the strength of a response after repeated presentations of
its eliciting stimulus
1) each trial shows smaller decrements in responding
2) response recovers over time between blocks of trials
3) habituation occurs faster in next block of trials
4) less habituation when stimulus is more intense
5) habituation continues even when response seems to be gone
6) habituation is stimulus-specific, but generalizes to other stimuli



Opponent-Process Theory Of Emotion, applied to Habituation













Classical Conditioning
US = unconditioned stimulus
UR = unconditioned response
CS = conditioned stimulus
CR = conditioned response