PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Heredity, Little Albert Experiment, Behaviorism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Alexis Arbuthnott

Document Summary

Seemingly automatic, hard-wired drooling response of salivation. Bell that eventually comes to elicit the saliva response. Extinction: the cr eventually disappears because the pleasurable stimulus (food/meat powder) is no longer evident and eventually the organism adapts to this new reality. Flooding: behavioural modification technique used to treat extreme phobias of specific objects. Extinction is at the root of this technique. The person is exposed to the feared object and is not permitted to escape. The usual avoidance response is no longer reinforced and eventually, fear lessens because the imagined or anticipated catastrophe after being exposed to the feared object does not happen. Differentiation: occurs when the organism learns to respond specifically to the exact cs and does not respond to a highly similar stimulus. The organism has learned that similar stimuli are not followed by the ucs. Generalization: the cr occurs in response to stimuli that resemble the original cs.