EDU 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Little Albert Experiment, Operant Conditioning Chamber, American Psychologist
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Give me a dozen healthy infants train him to be any type of specialism. Baby has no fear of various furry animals initially. Startling banging noise paired with fluffy white rat leads albert to fear the rat. Little albert generalizes his fear to other animals and fluffy white things. Watson doesn"t account for context and meaning, only outward behavior. American psychologist, influential from 1930s-60s, developed operant conditioning. He believed behavior is sustained by reinforcements of rewards, not by free will. Famous for skinner box and teaching machine. Often worked with pigeons and rats and applied what he learned with these animals to human learning. Involves conditioning voluntary, controllable behaviors, not the automatic physiological response in classical conditioning. With operant conditioning, the response comes before stimulus (opposite of cc) Teachers can deliberately use operant conditioning with students (training) How someone reacts to our behaviors determines whether or not we continue the behavior.
