PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: B. F. Skinner, Little Albert Experiment, Aversion Therapy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: A M M I R A N T E

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Behaviours are learned responses to stimuli in our environment learning: a change in an organisms behavior or thought as a result of experience doesn"t need to . Habituation: a gradual reduction in the strength of a response when a stimulus event is presented repeatedly (p. 199)- ex. Being in a basement and not seeing weather outside, hearing thunder and being scared af and then second time you hear thunder u gud: dishabituation: may occur with new stimulus, hab/dishab used in infant studies ex. Conditioning: involves learning connections or associations that occur between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning: transferring an automatic response to a new neutral stimulus: pavlovs dogs: learned or were conditioned to associate the sound of a tone with food. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): stimulus that automatically elicits a response without conditioning (p. 225) Unconditioned response (ucr): automatic response to a ucs that occurs without previous conditioning (p. 225)