PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vending Machine, Little Albert Experiment, Operant Conditioning
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Conditioning: process of learning associations between stimuli and response. Key terms: unconditioned stimulus stimulus that causes an unconditioned response, unconditioned response a response that is not conditioned. History: ivan pavlov (1849 1936) Certain events cued them that food was coming. Rang bell before giving dog food, dog started salivating at bell ringing. A neutral stimulus has become a conditioned stimulus. The conditioned stimulus is presented over and over again without the unconditioned stimulus. Ex: ring bell without giving dog food, dog will eventually stop salivating at sound of bell: spontaneous response. Reappearance of a previously extinguished response: generalization. Things similar to the conditioned stimulus will elicit the conditioned response associated with it. Phone ring that sounds like bell will make dog salivate: discrimination. Conditioned response occurs to one stimulus but not to other stimuli. Are organisms able to learn certain info: different species have evolved in different environments, some responses may be easier to learn for a particular species.
