PSY-2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Karen Horney, Erik Erikson, Operant Conditioning Chamber
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Learning: associative learning learning that certain events occur together. Dog trick treat: classical conditioning. 1904 nobel prize, did not consider himself a psychologist. Digestion of dogs, salivation, eventually salivation long before food was given. Bowl with no food has no meaning whatsoever. Unconditioned response saliva for the food. Ns, us, and ur remain the same. Spontaneous recovery same as classical but it takes several less trials: operant conditioning, watson. Black box what goes on in the head. Behaviorism & the advertising business: john watson popularized the coffee break. Law of effect: rewarded behavior is likely to recur. Initially wanted to be a writer but he sucked. Built off thorndike to create operant conditioning. Chamber with a bar or key that an animal manipulates to obtain food or water: could either happen due to accident or through prompting and shaping. Conversion disorder (hysteria) manifestation of physical symptoms without an physical illness.
