PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Santa Barbara City College, Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning
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Learning: process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours. Classical conditioning: learning to expect and prepare for events: learning to associate events. Operant conditioning: learning to repeat actions to obtain rewards or avoid punishment: learning to associate one"s behaviour to consequences. Ivan pavlov: studied the digestive system, accidently discovered classical conditioning in dog"s salivary response, foundational work in behaviourism. John b. watson little albert experiments: applied classical conditioning to humans, with raynor conditioned baby to associate white rats (cs) with loud noise (us) to fear them (cr) The initial learning of the stimulus-response relationship. As the ns and us are paired more often, the cr becomes stronger. The diminished cr when an us no longer follows the cs. The reappearance of a weakened cr after a pause. Generalization: the tendency to respond in a similar way to stimuli similar to the cs (e. g. cat with broom)
