PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Contiguity, Exposure Therapy

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

Document Summary

A conditioned stimulus can elicit a conditioned response. Due to a preparedness that we have; develop a fear as an adaptive thing from an evolutionary sense) Good thing in an evolutionary sense; lets you avoid things that may be detrimental to your survival. Watson attempted to create a phobia in a child. The case of little albert; developed a fear of mice. Watson never tried to decondition him; died at the age of 6, unable to determine whether he developed a fear of mice or not. When a well-established cs-1 starts acting as though it were an us and is able to bring the conditioned response under the control of a cs2. Taking classical conditioning and bringing it one step further. Light is pared with the bell sound, and now the light elicits salivation. When you get to the fourth pairing, the association with salivation is gone. When a stimulus that"s similar to the original cs elicits a cr.