PSYO 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reinforcement, Little Albert Experiment, Systematic Desensitization
6 Dec 2017
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Behaviorism : purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Theoretical goal of studying behavior is to predict and control behavior. Classical conditioning : a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response. Unconditioned stimulus (us) : something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism. Conditioned stimulus (cs) : a stimulus that . Is initially neutral and produces no reliable response in an organism. Conditioned response (cr) : a reaction that resembles an unconditional response but is produced by a conditioned stimulus. Acquisition : the phase of classical conditioning when the cs and the us are presented together. Second-order conditioning : conditioning where the stimulus that functions as the us is actually the cs from an earlier procedure in learning. Extinction : the gradual elimination of a learned response that occurs when the us is no longer presented.
