PPT-Stimulus and Response

Stimulus and Response Why animals and plants do what they do OR A fancy way of saying cause and effect in the animal world Describe a situation in which you were immediately scared andor reacted quickly to something Write at least 1 complete sentence describing your. It explains learning in terms of observable behaviours and how they are influenced by stimuli from the environment.. Content Page. Classical Conditioning. Ivan Pavlov’s 5 concepts. Generalization. Operant Conditioning. Jake Westfall. University of Texas at Austin. Charles M. Judd David A. Kenny. University of Colorado Boulder University of Connecticut. Two guidelines almost all can agree on for conducting direct replications:. Jake . Westfall. University of Colorado Boulder. Charles M. Judd David A. Kenny. University of Colorado Boulder University of Connecticut. Cornfield & . Tukey. (1956):. “The two spans of the bridge of inference”. Conditioned Learning. Review: What is Conditioned Learning?. Acquiring or changing patterns of behaviour as the result of an environmental stimulus.. Examples?. Smile back when someone smiles at us. Stop at a red light. The Concept of Reinforcement. (+) Positive Reinforcement. (-) Negative Reinforcement. Involves following an operant with the addition of an appetitive stimulus . A response is strengthened because something is added. (Behaviourism). Is behaviour learnt (nurture) or genetic (nature)?. . NATURE NURTURE. Learning objectives. understand the nature of response time, reaction time and movement time. understand . the role of working memory in choice reaction time. break . reaction time down into its component parts. All organisms have innate behaviors that are inherited from parents that develop independently from the environment. Innate behavior is inherited from an individual’s parents and is not modified by the individual and is generally not affected by the organism’s environment, including an organism’s experiences.. Stimulus and Response Why animals and plants do what they do OR A fancy way of saying cause and effect in the animal world. Describe a situation in which you were immediately scared and/or reacted quickly to something. Write at least 1 complete sentence describing your Receiver = papilla of the tongue . . transformer = taste buds . . conductor = cranial nerve VII. . Analyzer = temporal lobe . Touch . Stimulus = . pain, pressure, temperature . Receiver = . skin . Match up definitions. Stimulus. Receptor. Coordinator. Effector. Response. A cell, tissue, organ or system that carries out a response. A change brought about due to a stimulus. A detectable change in the internal /external environment. For example animals are apt to change their location.. Plants, which are rooted in one place, change their growth pattern in response to a stimulus.. The first step toward a response is . reception. . Concepts to know: . Debt vs. Deficit. Federal budget deficit – measured typically over the course of one year, a deficit occurs when the federal government’s outlays (payments) are larger than its receipts (funds paid to government).. s. est. Bias: . Cramer-. Rao. bound:. Mean square error:. Variance:. Fisher information. How good is our estimate? . (ML is unbiased: . b. = . b. ’ = 0). Alternatively:. Fisher information. Quantifies local stimulus .