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

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

Document Summary

Describe classical and operant conditioning and the important studies associated with each. Be able to apply classical and operant conditioning to real-world situations. Learning: a relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience: associations through conditioning, a process in which environmental stimuli and behavioral responses become connected. Behaviorism was the dominant paradigm into the 1960s, and it has had a lasting impact on many areas of psychology. Unconditioned stimulus: stimulus that elicits a response without any prior learning (food) Unconditioned response: response that does not have to be learned (salivating) Conditioned stimulus: stimulus that elicits a response only after learning has taken place (bell) Conditioned response: response that has been learned (salivating) Biological preparedness: a natural fear instinct, like heights or snakes. Researchers put a cat in a box with a window so they can see the food on the outside.