PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Systematic Desensitization
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Classical conditioning-bond formed between unconditioned stimulus (unlearned) and a neutral stimulus (becomes a conditioned stimulus after pairing) Spontaneous recovery- reverting back to old conditioned response. Learning is a change in behavior from experience. Pavlov and dogs that salivated (salivation=unconditioned response) because he taught them to associate a bell with a full food bowl, they would salivate(conditioned response) even when the bowl was empty (conditioned stimulus) Ex: baby talk and tickling us=tickle and ur=laugh, after time the baby talk led to laughter (cr) Us=mint ur=salivate ns=computer chime ns=computer chime cr=salivate at sound of chime. Us=nicotine ur=craving ns=alcohol cs=alcohol elicits nicotine craving cr=crave nicotine when drink alcohol. It applies to us (ex: food aversions), many phobias are a result of cc. Experiment done by watson and grad student, tried to get patients to develop a phobia, little. Used classical conditioning to expose infant to white rat and fear it. Couldn"t discriminate between white rat and other white objects.
