What is non-associative learning

What is non-associative learning?

1. Changes in elicited behaviour occurring as a result of repeated presentations of a stimuli
2. both increases/decreases in response can occur with repeated stimuli presentation
3. Decreases in responsiveness = habituation
4. Increases in responsiveness = sensitization
5. habituation + sensitization help organize and focus attention
6. Habituation occurs in all organisms from humans to single celled protozoa.
7. Properties of habituation and sensitization appear to be the same across organisms

NON-ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING

NON-ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING
Laboratory studies of learning have concentrated on conditioning procedures in which the participants experience two events (two stimuli, or a response and a stimulus) in close contiguity. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that association between events has proved so dominant in theories of learning. This approach has been justified by the assumption that the complex instances of learning shown in our everyday behaviour may well be governed by associative principles. But this should not blind us to the fact that learning can also result from procedures in which there is no intentional pairing of two events.