PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Classical Conditioning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Little Albert Experiment
26 Oct 2016
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No learning required in terms of what stimulus signals. No learning required to know how to respond. Pavlov interested in notion of predictable pattern to how learning was acquired. Repeated pairings together of 2, giving rise to unconditioned response. During acquisition stage, there is increasing in terms of drops of saliva, maxes out at certain point, eventually extinction. Cs alone, no ucs, eventually no cr. Can be thought of in terms of primary & secondary reinforcement. Not all animals respond the same way. Not all neutral stimuli work the same way. Taste aversion - seems to be hardwired. Instinctual drift - animal"s own instincts may be overpowering. Animals can learn to do voluntary things. Animals will engage in number of spontaneous behaviors. One of animal"s many spontaneous, voluntary behaviors selected for reinforcement. In thorndike & skinner"s cases, a really straightforward process. Effect of reinforcement - to increase likelihood that animal will emit chosen response.
