Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orgasm, Asteroid Family, Systematic Desensitization

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Nick Skinner

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Classical conditioning: john b. watson 1920, rosalie renner. With an 11 yr. old infant named albert. Albert was apathetic, mother brought him to the psychologists to see if they could get him to be more responsive. Conditioned fear response of rat when it used to be a positive stimulus. o test for pseudo conditioning (no fear of rats) > before conditioning phase (unconditioned stimulus [stimulus that naturally causes a response] ex. Fear)> after conditioning, no longer necessary to process the stimulus that produces a result therefore conditioned stimulus ex. Fear. o the response is the same whether it is an unconditional response or a conditioned response. o tests done a few days later showed that albert was scared of other hairy/furry objects, i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g watso(cid:374)"s hair. Stimulus that are similar to the original unconditioned stimuli and can achive the same response. o higher order conditioning: conditioned stimuli= book. The book was presented at the same time as the rat.