PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Startle Response, Little Albert Experiment, Longitudinal Study
16 Sep 2016
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Learning theory (aka behavourism): purpose was to try and understand how, as individuals, we learn new things, as move up the evolutionary ladder, can learn more complex information. Traumatic childhood even may only be observable 10 years later when child starts to act out) Behaviorists usually used classical (respondent) conditioning, aka pavlovian conditioning: pavlov and watson pioneered the conditioned reflex method. Reflex is a biologically determined behaviour that is always elicited by a particular stimulus. Happens automatically and is always the same. Elements of classical conditioning: us (unconditioned stimulus) such as smell of food that always elicits salivation, ur (unconditioned response) would be salivation when smell food, cs (conditioned stimulus) like pavlov"s bell. A cs must be something that can be perceived and attended to, so for example high frequency noise will not help us because we cannot perceive or attend to it.
