PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Lightning

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 110
• Professor: Andrew Kazama

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Learning a change in behavior due to experience. Associative learning linking 2 events or stimuli that occur close together in time: ex: training a dog to sit wait until they sit and then reward them. How might this be adaptive: flinching/reactive to loud noises is evolution telling you to be afraid/run away from loud noises, avoiding berries because they are poisonous food aversions, colors and patterns indicating poisonous animals/insects. Conditioning in the process of learning associations between events and behavioral responses: stimulus 1: see lightning, stimulus 2: hear thunder. Classical conditioning is a type of learning where we learn to associate 2 stimuli and anticipate events: this happens though repetition, you expect thunder after hearing lightning. Studies behavior without taking mental processes into account. 3 power houses of behaviorism: ivan pavlov, john b. watson, b. f. skinner. This caused him to accidentally discover classical conditioning. Classical conditioning: unconditioned stimulus (us): a stimulus that naturally triggers a response.