101676 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Little Albert Experiment, Anxiety Disorder, Fear Conditioning
3 Sep 2018
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Infants are generally not afraid of cats, dogs monkeys or white rats. Infants are afraid of a loud surprising noise. Little albert was exposed to a white rat followed by a surprising loud noise. Little albert learned to fear the white rat and other similar stimuli. Problems with the conditioning theory of anxiety and phobias. So(cid:373)e people ha(cid:448)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:449)ith a thi(cid:374)g (cid:271)ut do(cid:374)"t de(cid:448)elop spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) pho(cid:271)ia of it. Some people who have specific phobia have no overt negative conditining experience with their phobic stimulus. Lab monkeys can be taught to be afraid of snakes by seeing another monkey show fear to a snake: monkeys do not show observationally learned fear to flowers, only snakes. Food associated cues cause us to salivate, initiate hunger and eating responses. Individual differenced and food cues: there are significant individual differences in sensitivity to food cues, overweight individuals and restrained eaters are more likely to be influenced by perceptual and social food cues.
