PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Little Albert Experiment, Latent Inhibition, Classical Conditioning
26 Sep 2017
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Other neutral stimuli become cs due to their association with the original cs: ex. , forest kelly was in might come to serve as a cs that elicits anxious feelings. Each additional cs comes to elicit weaker responses: by weak, it means the probability of the response is less. Latent inhibition: difficult to pair a cs that has been experienced many times alone with other cs. John b. watson: the founder of behaviorism, this may be true in his approach to studying behavior, but. Watson"s behaviorism is diff from that of today (cid:498)give me a dzen healthy infants, well form(cid:499: often quoted as saying. Baby albert no conditioned responses to a white rat (ns) Watson hit a metal pipe when the baby saw the rat (ucs) Albert became afraid of the rat and other white, fluffy obj (ucr: ex. No one knows what happened to albert, his mother withdrew him from study before they had a chance to extinguish the response.
