PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Habituation

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2012
• Professor: Phoua Yang

Document Summary

Learning: change in behavior or thought that results from experience. Habituation: process by which we respond less strongly to stimuli. Sensitization: respond more strongly to stimuli over time. Classical conditioning: form of learning in which a previously neutral stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Unconditioned stimulus: stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Conditioned response: a learned response that the cs elicits. Bell + meat ---------time-------> bell results in salivation. Renewal effect: reemergence of cr following extinction when animal is returned to environment in which it had acquired it. Little albert: shows that we learn to fear. Stimulus generalization: cs similar but not identical to original comes to elicit a cr. Stimulus discrimination: less pronounced cr to cs that differ from original. A form of learning in which the consequences of a behavior change the probability of the behavior"s occurrence. Primary: item or outcome naturally increase target behavior.