PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Motivation, Little Albert Experiment, Goal Setting
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Making the patient instinctively react to a situation in a certain way. Making sure the stimulus is very specific, so. Slowly taking away the association between the cs and. In the little albert study, they would have showed the rabbit with no loud noise, and made the loud noise with no rabbit present. Making the patient choose to react to a situation in a certain way. Every time they want food, the researchers encourage the patient to do a specific action in order to get it. Primates also engage in this kind of learning. Must watch the person doing the action. Must be able to physically do the action. Must have a reason to want to do it, and have motivation to do it. There was an experiment where an experimental group watched an adult beat up a toy, while the control group watched an adult play quietly.
