01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: kilianski

Document Summary

Family does not play a huge role in how a child turns out despite popular belief. The structure, sensitivity, and performance of the cns and ans determine basic temperament which predisposes us to acquiring certain traits. Experiences with the gentle push of genetics give us our traits. Physical and temperamental characteristics affect how others perceive us and behave toward. Physical characteristics and cns/ans reactivity incline us to choose different environments. Learning @ conditioning: a relatively enduring change in tought, emotion, or behavior due to experience. There are two types of learning or conditioning . Pavlov"s classical or respondent conditioning us and experiences. Explains involuntary, usu. emotional responses to environment. Explains voluntary behaviors where organism acts on environment. Conditioned stimulus (cs) footsteps of the caretaker. Conditioned response (cr) is the dog"s salivating. Classical conditioning (everything is observable) (belongs under humanism) (only observable behavior, not mental structures) Spontaneous recovery (response that occurs after extinction)