SIGN-283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Turing Machine, Little Albert Experiment, B. F. Skinner
27 Jul 2020
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Learning goals: zeitgeist of the first half of the 20th century, behaviourism, key figures. Who? physiologist who studied the digestive system of animals (mainly dogs) observed that many digestive processes consisted of re exes. 1900: started to become interested in a curious phenomenon: after a few experiences of food delivery, the animal started to secrete digestive fluids before the food arrived in the mouth (as the animal saw the preparations of the experiment) Was the beginning of the research on classical conditioning. Father of comparative psychology deliberate use of the experimental method rejection of anthropomorphism and anecdotalism. By enlisting animals as analogues for human psychology, thorndike, like many other animal psychologists in the period from 1890 to 1920, simply ignored the dictates of evolution. 1898: published his phd thesis on animal learning = the birthday of comparative psychology. Introduced terms instrumental conditioning + the law of effect.
