PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: B. F. Skinner, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Behaviourism: started with proponents that mental life much less important than behaviour as a foundation for psychological science (b. f. skinner 1904-1990, j. b. watson 1878-1958) Noticed his dogs salivated at the sound of a bell. The language of classical conditioning: neutral stimulus (ns) A stimulus which does not trigger a response: unconditioned stimulus (us) and response (ur) A stimulus which triggers a response naturally, before/without any conditioning: conditioned stimulus (cs) A stimulus that will trigger the learned cr: condtioned response (cr) The learned response triggered by the cs. What are some properties of classical conditioning? (i) (ii) extinction (& spontaneous recovery) (iii) generalization and discrimination. What gets acquired: the association between a ns and a us. Tuesday, february 28, 2017: the cs now triggers a response (cr) (i. e. ur now becomes cr) Timing: for the association to be acquired. the ns needs to be repeatedly appear before the us (ii) extinction.