PSYC 1150 Lecture 6: Lecture 6- Nurture

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1150
• Professor: Scott Mattson

Document Summary

Classical conditioning: british associationists believed we acquire virtually all of our knowledge by connecting one stimulus with another (mother"s face and voice) How are conditioned responses acquired, maintained and extinguished: steps, 1. Neutral stimulus (ns) does not elicit a particular response: 2. Pair the ns repeatedly with a ucs which already elicits a ucr: 3. Eventually ns becomes a cs, resulting in a cr: 4. 4/29/16: stimulus generalization - elicitation of a cr that are highly similar to, but not identical to, the cs. Generalization gradient - more similar the new cs is to the original cs, the stronger the cr will be: stimulus discrimination - opposite of ; occurs when we exhibit a cr to certain css but not others. 4/29/16: disgust reactions - in most cases, a product of classical conditioning because css associated with disgusting ucss come to elicit disgust themselves. Acquiring behaviours as a result of the outcome or consequence of those behaviours.