PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Little Albert Experiment, Contiguity, Classical Conditioning

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Sumarga Suanda

Document Summary

Albert (infant) tested at 9 months and 11 months. He was shown animals - wasn"t scared, just interested. But then the next time, as each animal is presented, watson (experimenter) would produce a very loud sound. Operant/instrumental conditioning: learning the relationship between behavior and what we choose (voluntary, thorndike and law of effect. Put cat inside cage with a lever inside. At first, the cat would try several different things and eventually would press lever and open door. After being put in the cage several times, the time it takes to press lever is much shorter. Behaviors followed by a satisfying state tend to be repeated and vice versa. Negative (stimulus is taken away: schedules of reinforcement. Sometimes, partially rewarding is more effective than rewarding every time. Limits to conditioning: contingency not contiguity, contingency not contiguity. Contiguous events: when both unconditioned and conditioned stimuli are presented together: latent learning, taste aversion.