PSYC 3222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Classical Conditioning, Dependent And Independent Variables, Human Behavior

• School: CU Denver
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3222
• Professor: Karen Crawford

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Chapter 3 & 4 - 2/7 & 2/9. Important or understanding what hull"s theory is really about. Determine whether a response will occur for a stimulus. Reaction potential (potential of stimulus to elicit response) Reaction potential: the potential that a stimulus has for producing a response. Decreased drive after too many hours of deprivation (or satiation) Response latency (there may be time lapsed before the response) Reaction threshold (how intense the stimulus must be to elicit a response. Example: mother"s adrenaline after seeing a car roll over her child and being able to lift the car off them. A conditioned response made by an organism before the actual goal reaction. Although overt behaviors might be associated with antedating goal reactions, they are conditioned internal responses. Example: animal in a maze knows there is food at either end, but sit in the middle pacing back and forth not knowing which way to go.