PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Conditioning, Little Albert Experiment, Orienting Response
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A relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience. Our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence. Aristotle, 2000 years ago, suggested this law of association, then 200 years ago locke and hume reiterated this law. If the organism is learning associations between its behavior and the resulting events. Seal balances ball on nose and gets fish so he keeps doing it. Moving hair to get something you want, your hair out of your face. Classical conditioning involves respondent behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. Respond to something, involuntary, heart beating faster because you got scared, involuntary. Involves operant behavior, a behavior that operates on the environment producing rewarding or punishing stimuli. Voluntary movements like moving hair out of your face or picking nose. Studied the digestive system for two decades. Won the nobel prize for psychology in 1904. Accidentally discovered classical conditioning through his work on salvation with dogs.
