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Human LearningTopic 2: The Most Basic Learning

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Not such a blank slate

Our behavior is not without limits

But it is not entirely fixed

We have a sort of ‘firmware’ that allows us to interpret experience

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Elicited behavior

What do you have in common with:

It responds to its environment

It has reflexes

It can learn

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Elicited behavior

Responses that are the result of stimuli in our environment.

The reflex

Eye blinks

Withdrawal

Salivation

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The reflex

Eliciting stimulus

Class of stimuli

Corresponding response

Rarely occurs without the above

Sensory neuron

Motor neuron

Interneuron

These form the reflex arc