Psychology 2210A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Simple Explanation, Little Albert Experiment, Fear Conditioning
16 Mar 2018
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Video a more simple explanation for a behaviour = classical or operant conditioning they provide a more simple explanation for behaviour that could be attributed to higher order cognition. Last week, we talked about how environmental events can elicit behaviour, and how such behaviour can be modified by sensitization and habituation. For the most part, habituation and sensitization involve learning just about one stimulus, and bring an organism in tune with its environment. Events in the world, however, often do not occur in isolation. If humans and non-human animals were limited to these kinds of behavioural mechanisms, they would be very limited in the kinds of things they could do cause-and-effect relationships in the world ensure that certain things occur in predictable combinations. Two kinds of associative learning have dominated the psychological literature: Classical conditioning is the simplest mechanism whereby organisms learn about the relations between one event and another.
