PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Edward Thorndike, Exposure Therapy, Tantrum

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

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Fairly permanent change in behaviours that results from experience. Associative- learn that certain events occur together by the linking of them. Learn to associate two stimuli and to anticipate events. Learn that if you respond in a certain way, you will get a certain consequence. After a few seconds deliver meat powder and turn of tone. Dog is hungry and saliva flow registers o o. Pavlov believed critical factor was temporal contiguity of cs with ucs. If allow a rest period after extinction then cs will elicit cr again. If dog salivates to tone alone then: o o. Cs (tone) ---> no response or irrelevant response. Cs (tone) ---> ucs paired with (+food) ---> ucr (salivation) Cc can occur even in primitive flatworms & for many responses. When a cr has been associated with a cs other stimuli similar to the cs will evoke the. Cs (tone) ---> ucs paired with (+shock) ---> ucr (gsr)