CNPS 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Social Learning Theory, Albert Bandura

• School: UBC
• Department: Counselling Psychology
• Course: CNPS 365
• Professor: Deepak Mathew

Document Summary

Insight is not enough, also need the how to change. Is there a theory of personality in behaviour therapy: everything is learned, function of experience. Four areas of behaviour therapy: classical conditioning, a neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with a stimulus that naturally elicits a particular response. Classical conditioning (respondent or pavlovian conditioning: learning is all about associations between one stimulus and another stimulus, unconditioned. Inborn and innate: unconditioned stimulus conditioned response, e. g. , touch hot stove (unconditioned stimulus) pain move hand away (unconditioned response, conditioned, learned through association, conditioned stimulus conditioned response. Pairing in classical conditioning: repeated pairing of us and cs will lead to cr, reinforced and unreinforced trials, extinction. Generalization and discrimination: generalization, unintentional extension of cs (conditioned response, little albert, how phobias develop, further perpetuation and development of anxiety disorders, ex. Aversive experience in a school environment becomes generalized to all schools through reinforcement and avoidance: discrimination, discerning between similar but different cs, red v green light.