PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Little Albert Experiment, Behaviorism, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 101
• Professor: Natalie Dautovich

Document Summary

Supertasters have up to 6 times as many taste buds. Individual differences in flavor experience depends on our number of taste receptors. Most of the world finds the combination of peanut butter and jelly disgusting. Wintergreen is used as a flavoring in medicine in germany and not found as a candy flavor. Musk is a popular candy flavor in australia but not in many other places. Cannot see any colors (only see variations in lightness) Red-green color vision defects are more common in males than in females. Incoming sensory data must be organized into meaningful wholes. Gestalt psychologists developed principles to explain how the brain automatically organizes visual input into meaningful holistic objects. > visual elements are grouped together if they are close to each other. > we perceive contours even though they do not exist. Involves judging the distance of objects from us. Brain uses many different cues to judge depth.