PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Little Albert Experiment, Contiguity

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Dr. Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Date: october 19, 2018 (us) the fear/startled response fear (ur) (cs) mouse fear (cr) A lot of phobias are developed through classical conditioning. Psychologist watson wanted to create a phobia (in child) Watson"s assistant banged a gong behind kid"s head. Learned phobias can be unlearned via classical conditioning. Watson did not try to remove the phobia. Light + bell (cs2) light salivation (cr) The further away from the original response, the weaker the response. Theoretically anything else could be a cs1. Stimulus generalization: is when a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned response elicits a conditioned response. Little albert developed fear of white toys, santa"s beard. Stimulus discrimination: is when only the original cs elicits a cr. Extinction: where the unconditioned stimulus is no longer presented with the cs and the conditioned response gradually weakens and disappears (us) gong fear (ur) (cs) mouse fear (phobia) (cr)