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Food is a common reinforcement used to condition hungry rats and pigeons.... For example, in the fixed interval schedule, an inter-trial interval precedes each trial and extra-empty trials where no food is given to the rats.... Choice introduces self-control where the subject learns how to wait for better rewards instead of settling on immediate smaller rewards.... In some procedures, the organism can be exposed to a stimulus and different responses are expected after an absolute or relative duration....
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Research Paper
This paper seeks to discuss the extent to which the effects of hoppocampal damage could be explained in terms of an impairment of associative learning with reference to spatial learning and recognition memory.... This paper has discussed the extent to which the effects of hoppocampal damage could be explained in terms of an impairment of associative learning with reference to spatial learning and recognition memory.... In the past studies, it was noted that bilateral hippocampus ablations in the impaired performance on the task of the associative learning and on the task of the object discrimination retention....
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Dissertation
Amblyopia is a condition of multiple features that affects about 1 to 5% of the population world wide.... The condition is marked by poor contrast sensitivity and visual acuity.... Along with these there are many visual deficits that can occur which is the reason why now amblyopia is considered to be a syndrome of multiple existing condition rather than an isolated pathology....
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Essay
Lyman though not a doctor tried to control his brother's emotions and treated him as a normal person.... In essence, the mediating role of thinking between stimulus and behavior is the critical point of change and alteration in cognitive therapy.... Henry volunteers for the Vietnam War and returns home after three years....
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Case Study
Vietnam has a stimulus discriminator that is built to ensure that such games only allow shooting under authority, however, what children play as video games do not have such safeguards built in their conditioning.... The rate Grossman asserts that the major psychological processes that cause violence include classical conditioning, imitation and observation of vicarious role models in social learning, and operant conditioning....
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Essay
In stimulus control, an organism does behave in a specific way when a certain stimulus is present, and behaves in another way when the absence of the stimulus.... Reinforcement is any act that results to the strengthening or an increase in motivation of the individual behaviour, which is stimulated by an antecedent stimulus.... Negative reinforcement involves removal of certain stimulus, hence making the organism to avoid that behaviour.... Unconditioned response have a natural occurrence due to a specific stimulus, while conditioned response development involves the pairing process of a neutral stimulus with a conditioned stimulus....
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Essay
Wake states are characterized by great amounts of cortical neuronal firing rates to facilitate learning and memory, prolonged waking is associated with increased expression of proteins for energy metabolism, cellular stress response and synaptic potentiation (Cirelli and Tononi, 2008)....
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Assignment
Such environments may include; extreme poverty or discrimination against certain minority groups.... According to the research findings of the paper "Criminal Conduct", there is no single factor or a combination of factors which causes an individual to involve themselves in criminal activities....
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Essay