SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Applied Behavior Analysis, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Tantrum

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Psychologist interested in digestion such as salivation. Noted that stimuli associated with food = salivation. Bell and food = response to food. Then whenever dog hears bell it means he knows there"s food. Rats (cs) + loud noise (ucs) = fear (ucr/ cr) 1. avoiding cues: extinction: cues without the drug. Consequences of past behaviour affect current behaviour. Consequences increase the probability of the behaviour. Gradual disappearance of a response that is no longer follow by the reinforcer. Child freaks out when she doesn"t get in the way. Consistent and persistent use of positive reinforcement. Encoding: immediate, while the event is taking place. Consolidation: slow, in the hours, days, months, years following the event. Emotional info attracts attention quickly and automatically. Enhancement helps us adjust in the future. Sometimes we don"t want to: post traumatic stress disorder. Instead of erasing memory, you"ll take the bad emotional sting that comes along with it. Release of stress hormones during the emotional arousal.