PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism, Little Albert Experiment
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Is basically a concrete change in an organism"s behavior because of an experience. It allows for more flexibility with our environment. Learning can occur at a single instance. An organism that learns to associate stimuli. In his experiment, he recorded that before conditioning food which would be an unconditioned stimulus, we produce salivation as an unconditioned response. While conditioning, the tone and the doors are paired and result in salivation. After conditioning a neutral stimulus the now conditioned stimulus, elicits salivation as a response. Association with us triggers a conditioned response. The unconditioned response- banging noise when he saw a rat. The conditioned stimulus is the white rat. Associate a neutral stimulus with a unconditioned stimulus. Neutral stimulus must come before unconditioned stimulus. When the unconditioned stimulus no longer follows conditioned stimulus. Eventually the person/ animal will quit responding. The reappearance of an extinguished response after a break. Tendency for similar stimuli to elicit similar responses.
