PSY-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Relaxation Technique, Little Albert Experiment, Pedophilia
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Little albert was shown a white rat and afterwards created a loud noise, which made albert cry. After several rat-noise pairings, the sight of the rat alone made albert cry. To study generalization and discrimination: albert was exposed to colour and did not elicit any response, but when he was shown anything white, he began to cry. Humans become afraid of neutral stimuli when paired with electrical shock. Treatments based on classical conditioning principal are the most effective therapies. Mary cover jones used exposure therapies, which expose the phobic patient to the cs without any usc allowing extinction to occur. Aversion therapy attempts to condition repulsion to a stimulus that triggers unwanted behaviour by pairing it with a noxious ucs. Alcoholism is treated by pairing consumption with a pill causing nausea. Usually do not last, or generalize outside the environment where learning occurred.
