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

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr.John Ackroff

Document Summary

A relaively enduring change in thought, emoion, or behavior due to experience. Involuntary responses to the environment a: simulus proceeds response. Skinner"s operant or instrumental condiioning: voluntary behaviors, acts of an environment c. Condiioned a child to be afraid of an object. Cs could funcion as ucs- higher order condiioning. Paired white lab rat with loud noise, making albert cry. Crying- ucr: then: fear: cr, rat: cs. Higher order condiioning: (phase 1) if pair lab rat with bell overime becomes afraid of bell alone. Phase 2: bell with light light alone cry. Reinforcement: event that follows the behavior and response. Increases the frequency and likelihood of a behavior: not always pleasurable. Punishment: any event that reduces frequency of behavior. Exincion: eliminaion of a behavior with withholding reinforcement: not through punishment. Only the things that we can see and measure. Operant behaviors are emited before reinforcement occurs. Discriminaive simuli: can signal when reinforcement will happen: how you are supposed to behave.