PSY 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noam Chomsky, Latent Learning, Little Albert Experiment
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Create emotional reactions by associating things with stimuli: little albert. Associated with classical conditioning pairing one stimulus with another (neutral or previously neutral) Argued that behavior can be analyzed without reference to the mind. Inspired by pavlov"s experiment: paired ringing of a bell with presentation of food. After enough pairings, the bell alone caused salivation classical conditioning. Operant conditioning: shape behavior by rewards/punishments. Skinner (1957) verbal behavior: argued that children learned language through operant conditioning. Correct speech is rewarded: did not make any sense argued by chomsky. Argued that children do not only learn language through imitation and reinforcement: children say things they have never heard and cannot be imitated, children say things incorrectly and also speak things that have not been rewarded for. Language must be determined by inborn biological program. Tolman (1938) trained rates to find food in a four-armed maze.
