PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Immunosuppressive Drug, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning
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Behaviourism: its our experiences who shape what we are. Two extremes of the spectrum: instinct and environment (we are in between) Reflexes: we are predisposed to fear snakes and spiders more than dogs (these are unconditioned b/c we"re born with it) Mosquitoes and mice also feared b/c disease carriers. We change as a result of changes in our environment. Acquisition: neutral stimulus takes on active response (becomes conditioned response) When you experience an intense emotion, if you don"t exp. it again it will stay intense. When you continuously confront the experience, it gets extinguished over time ex. specific times for eating, huge amount of cash, etc. Stimulus generalization: organism thats been conditioned to a certain stimulus (ex. bell) will respond to similar stimulus (bell w/ diff. tone) Watson took a baby (little albert) gave him a white rat to play with. When rat come close, watson hits gong, makes baby cry.
