PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Little Albert Experiment, Systematic Desensitization, Classical Conditioning

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Rebecca Kirchner

Document Summary

Learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior (gaining new knowledge) Instincts: innate habits and behaviors. (more complex than reflexes) Pavlov"s dogs: dogs start forming saliva before food is presented. Unconditioned stimulus is dog food (no learning needed, automatic) Unconditioned response is that dogs salivate (no prior experience, natural) Conditioned stimulus is the bell sound before presenting dog food. (learned, now caused by neutral stimulus) Conditioned response is that dogs salivate in response to the bell. (learned outcome) Contiguity: proximity in time (needs to be in time) Contingency: needs a relationship between the cs and the ucs. After a period of time when cs no longer results in ucs, the dog starts forgetting. Spontaneous recovery: the previous learned response come back. Having the same response to a related thing (fear for cats can generalize to fear for little kittens) When a conditioned stimulus results the absence of an unconditioned stimulus. Slower learning occurs when a cs is already familiar.