PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Little Albert Experiment, Lightning, Fear Conditioning
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Learning: any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice. Through life, we learnt o associate things with each other. Our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence: gestalt contiguity idea: things that occur close in time to one another are grouped together, example: rules of language syntax. In other words, when one event precedes another, we learn t associate one event with the other: thunder and lightning, lucky shirt and doing well on exam. Learning that things go together is very adaptive. Pavlov example: food (ucs) and drooling (ucr: no learning needs to occur for a dog to drool when it sees food, thus, the response is unconditioned. Conditioned stimulus (cs): learned (starts off as neutral) Conditioned response (cr): learned (not as strong as ucr). Can you learn: respondent extinction= when a us does not follow a cs, a cr starts to decrease and at some point completely diminishes.
