PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Learning
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Psych 120: chapter 7 learning: learning: a change in behaviour or thought that is due to experience, associative learning: forming associations between events that occur in the environment. Dog hooked up to machine that delivered food. Device made a clicking noise just before food. Dogs eventually began to salivate on hearing the click, even before the food was present: classical (pavlovian) conditioning: A neutral stimulus begins to evoke a particular response, through association with other stimulus that naturally evokes response: terms: Unconditioned stimulus (us): stimulus that evokes an unlearned or natural response (ex. meat) response (ex. salivation) Conditioned stimulus (cs): a previously neutral stimulus that, through association with the us, comes to evoke a similar response as the us (ex. bell) response (ex. salivation) Conditioned response (cr): the learned (conditioned: classical conditioning example with dogs: Treatment for alcoholism: drug produces nausea when paired with alcohol, pair drug with alcohol: eventually development of nausea with any contact with alcohol.
