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C. elegans Positive Butanone Learning, Short-term, and Long-term Associative Memory Assays
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2011
Here we describe methods to test C. elegans associative learning and short- and long-term associative memory. These population assays employ the worms abilities to chemotax toward volatile odorants, and form positive associations upon pairing food with the chemoattractant butanone. Increasing the number of conditioning periods induces long-term memory.
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The Implicit Association Test
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2023
Source: Julian Wills & Jay Van Bavel—New York University One of the core constructs in social psychology is the notion of an attitude toward an object or person. Traditionally, psychologists measured attitudes by simply asking people to self-report their beliefs, opinions, or feelings. This approach has limitations, however, when measuring socially sensitive attitudes, like racial prejudice, because people are often motivated to self-report unprejudiced, egalitarian beliefs (despite...
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Position-effect Variegation
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2020
In 1928, a German botanist Emil Heitz observed the moss nuclei with a DNA binding dye. He observed that while some chromatin regions decondense and spread out in the interphase nucleus, others do not. He termed them euchromatin and heterochromatin, respectively. He proposed that the heterochromatin regions reflect a functionally inactive state of the genome. It was later confirmed that heterochromatin is transcriptionally repressed, and euchromatin is transcriptionally active chromatin.
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Positive Reinforcement Studies
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2023
Researchers study learning of a behavior through the use of operant conditioning. This type of learning involves associating the behavior with a consequence, which is a reward or punishment. If the consequence is a reward, it leads to reinforcement of the desired behavior. One type of reinforcement approach is positive reinforcement, where the behavior is rewarded with an artificial, natural, or social reinforcer. Studies using positive reinforcement as a tool can help tease out important...
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Low-Stress Handling and Positive Reinforcement Training in Rabbits and Pigs
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2026
All animal procedures described here must be conducted in accordance with institutional animal ethics guidelines and approved by IACUC. All procedures must follow the principles of the 3Rs—Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement—and must be performed by trained personnel. Low-stress handling, habituation, and positive reinforcement training are important refinement practices that reduce fear, minimize distress, and encourage voluntary cooperation during routine procedures in larger laboratory...
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Repeated exposure to a cue alongside rewarding consequences, supportive social feedback, or pleasurable emotions can make that cue increasingly connected with favorable expectations. As the connection strengthens, the cue may more readily elicit approach, trust, or motivation. This mechanism helps explain why the same activity, setting, or interaction can acquire encouraging psychological significance through experience.
Supportive feedback can serve as a favorable consequence that links a behavior or situation with encouragement and positive expectations. When such feedback recurs, the associated cue may become more likely to evoke motivation or approach. In psychological research, this makes social responses relevant not only to behavior change, but also to how people develop attitudes toward activities and relationships.
Outcomes depend on what follows the experience and how meaningful it is to the person. Encouragement, meaningful rewards, and pleasurable emotions can support stronger favorable connections, while personally relevant experiences may make desired activities more motivating. Researchers therefore consider the specific cue, the accompanying consequence or feedback, and resulting changes in expectations, approach, trust, or motivation.
They provide a way to examine how experience connects cues with later expectations and responses. Researchers can use this perspective to study learning and memory, while also examining attitudes, relationships, and behavior change. The resulting observations may show whether an experience is linked with greater approach, trust, or motivation, rather than merely describing the experience itself.
Practitioners can connect the desired activity with encouragement, a meaningful reward, or an experience that matters to the individual. The activity itself remains the target, while the accompanying response supplies a favorable context that may strengthen motivation. This strategy can be adapted to educational, health, therapeutic, or organizational settings according to the intended activity or environment.
Applications described in psychology include education, health interventions, therapeutic practice, and organizational environments. In each setting, the goal is to connect desired activities or experiences with encouragement, meaningful rewards, or personal relevance. Such pairings may help create more favorable expectations and support approach or motivation, while researchers assess the effects within the relevant setting.
They examine changes in learning, memory, attitudes, relationships, and behavior, along with responses such as approach, trust, and motivation. These outcomes help indicate whether a cue or activity has acquired favorable significance through experience. Looking across several outcomes is useful because an association may influence expectations, social responses, and behavior in different ways.