PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Little Albert Experiment, Tuning Fork, Latent Inhibition

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Janel Fergusson

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Psyc 101 week 5 lecture 3: learning. Learning: any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge due to experience. 2 types of learning: habituation decrease in response after repeated presentations. After seeing/hearing/smelling something for a long time, you have a less sensitive response to it. Infant studies as infants are exposed to the same thing over and over, they get bored; when they are exposed to something new, they get excited: sensitization increase in response after repeated presentations. E. g. (cid:374)ot (cid:374)oti(cid:272)i(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e sa(cid:455)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)u(cid:373),(cid:863) the(cid:374) (cid:374)oti(cid:272)i(cid:374)g it (cid:373)ore and more. Neutral stimulus becomes unconditioned stimulus unconditioned response. Conditioned stimulus conditioned response: contiguity how close together in time the 2 stimuli are. Stimuli generally need to be close together in time in order to be conditioned: contingency how much one depends on the other (high contingency they depend on each other) Pre-e(cid:454)posure of u (u(cid:374)likel(cid:455) to get (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)ed (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s (cid:374)ot predictive)