PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Contiguity, Connectionism, Reinforcement
22 Jun 2017
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Horse bucks until it fatigues: threshold technique involves presenting the stimulus that forms part of the undesirable sr (for stimulus response) unit (habit) but, used more so for building habits, eg. Just hold it and have it present in washroom. Eventually, this will allow you to floss more regularly: when treating phobias, get person to stand in elevator and, incompatible stimuli technique involves presenting the stimulus happens. Need them to exp fear as a way of overcoming it. Thorndike: tried to establish through experimentation that animals learn through a gradual process of trial and error that eventually leads to the (cid:498)stamping in(cid:499) of correct response, more interested in physiology, president of apa. Thorndike(cid:495)s connectionism: connectionism: connections bw humans and non-humans (eg. chimps, he believed that iq in humans are unique and behaviours of animals are. Iq equal between humans and animals done by chance rather than in a specific strategy.
