 Greetings all. Here we go. We're gonna talk about some basic learning phenomena. So not such a blank slate When you think about John Locke and the empiricists the British empiricists They argued that all behavior was a blank slate, right? They're you're a blank slate and everything that you have is kind of written onto that Well, that's not quite the case because first off we're not without limits, right? You're baby. There's There's a finite limit as to what you can do, you know For example, I'm not going to be able to learn to hold my breath for 25 minutes Now I'm a human and I can learn how to use scuba equipment I suppose I could even learn to invent better scuba equipment, but generally speaking our behavior is not without limits That's not entirely fixed either in other words We can modify things right lots of different things we can even modify reflexes We can arrange for contingencies to modify our own behavior We can modify other people's behavior and we'll talk about all this stuff as we go Um to put it in the context of today in a sense that we have a firmware, right? That means that your program your brain is wired to accept stuff So it's wired to accept experiences. It's wired to connect those experiences link them together And then And that's that process that that in the past British Associationists or British empiricists were also Associationists they talked about that association process now we could get into the philosophy of why that Associationism is not the right term, but on the surface it's an okay term you dig into it a little bit It gets to be problematic, but we as humans tend to form associations between event a and event b we link those up together But it's not an active process. It just it's not something you decide to do this happens without your knowledge It happens deeper in the brain Then you're constantly then then you're aware of so to speak so it's just happening quickly And and that's okay. That's a good thing and it keeps you alive and we'll talk a little bit about why they keep you alive later Excuse me much like this hand carved rooster, right? The firmware there is that it had to be a particular shape, right? That that branch before it was carved was A branch right but without that particular shape you wouldn't have that particular branch You wouldn't be able to get that hand carved rooster out of it. It's a cool little thing It's kind of fun. They only take about 15 minutes to be there really cute Anyway, so think of your brain as in a sense that That branch, right? It's it's put together in a particular way Then you can do stuff with that particular thing, right? In this case, we took a branch turned it into a rooster I didn't do it. I got the picture on the internet somewhere. So anyway Illicited behavior. Whoa, sorry. Illicited behavior Illicited behavior is behavior that's pulled out of you, right? So it's illicit Your reaction is illicit Not illicit as in illegal illegal not illegal behavior, but illicit So it means a stimulus basically caused the behavior to happen So in other words, what do you have in common with this cute little thing? Which is a microscopic view of something I forget now what that was a picture of it Probably typed in paramecia and this funky picture came up I don't even think it's an accurate picture, but it's an artist's interpretation of one on a microscopic level. So anyway Basically what you have in common with this thing is that it responds to its environment and it has reflexes And it can modify those reflexes in other words It can learn And it learns in the same way that you learn in terms of modification of reflexes, right? So you can take a little blunt probe now this pen isn't very blunt But you get the idea get the blunt probe you can touch it and goes It reacts and you touch it goes reacts and then eventually as the pen is coming at it goes Before the pen comes at it, right? So it can modify its behavior, right? Is it actively doing it is like their brain they're going. Oh, I need to figure out no, all right It just happens and it's the same way with you the same way with me in the same way with All the people on the wall in the pictures back there, right? Or any animal that may show up in the office. There's pictures of animals over here. So Anyway, we all learned in that same basic fashion So here's a little bit of a better definition of elicited behavior We've got responses that are the result of stimuli In our environment as you can see the stimulus has the power So the stimulus pulls out the response in you elicits, right? So the stimulus happens you go react to that if you blow a puff of air into my eyes I'm going to blink right if you shine a bright light in my bright light my eyes. I'm going to I'm going to win Sorry, I'm going to look away. Okay. Those are your reflexes, right? So the reflexes qualify as elicited behavior as you might imagine the reflex, right? I have blanks withdrawal, right? The withdrawal symptoms that that may happen sometimes those are reflexes withdrawal withdrawing from an object I guess that's the turn I was thinking about so you touch something hot. Sorry. You can't really see that You touch something hot. Whoo. You react your hand withdrawals from that withdrawals from that So that is a particular type of reflex Salivation with the cute little baby, of course That's not my baby picture from the internet Anyway, you can see this elevation happening. I don't know if it comes through really well in the video But she drew a happy baby just drooling away, right? And that's a type of reflex if I present a food odor to you or even I would give you a visual of food Oh, I could do it right now. I've got some great food in here. Now. Do not pick on me for my eating habits. They're horrific I understand but they're highly reinforcing Pringles some of you at this point. I'm gonna give you a closer Pringles, right? Some of you at this point are salivating some of you are puking But my guess is most of you are salivating and I have one thing to add to this If you put caviar on Pringles, you will be surprised how good it is and don't ask how I know that Actually, you can ask I might not answer has to do with Afghanistan and the fact that we didn't have any good chips We have Pringles And we had caviar and alcohol We'll deal with all that stuff later