PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Habituation, Developmental Psychology, Behaviorism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Claire Scavuzzo

Document Summary

Habituation is a troublesome part of drug addiction. Long term drug users can handle" doses that to new drug users would be lethal (baker & tiffany, 1985). Repeated consumption leads to increasingly less and less reward : habituation is an essential part of developmental psychology, with differences in looking time, we infer the child is able to discriminate between then. With longer looking time, we infer the child prefers one over another (i. e. , the child is slower to habituate): sensitization. With longer looking time, we infer the child prefers one over another. **behaviourist theory*: classical conditioning, watson, fear is just a behavioural predisposition to cry, love a predisposition to kiss, hate a predisposition to attack. We are born with nothing onto which the environment etches its stimulus-response relationships associations. Fear behaviour is then a ur: cs(conditioned stimulus) cr(conditioned response, by associating furry animals with the gong, a us-cs link is establish.