PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Conditioning, Organism, Little Albert Experiment

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Poremba Amy

Document Summary

Process based on experience that results in a relatively permanent change in behavior. Ivan pavlov: physiologist interested in digestion, found that dogs salivated to the sight of the experimenter, what could cause this physic secretion? . Pavlov"s experiment: studied reflexive behavior: salivation, stimulus that caused salivation (food) was paired with a neutral stimulus (bell, bell produced salivation as if the dog anticipated the food. Terms: before pairing the bell with the food, during pairing: Extinction: when you stop pairing the cs with the ucs, eventually, the cs won"t produce the cr. Conditioned emotional responses: watson and rayner (1920) Conditioned 11 month little albert to fear a white rat by making loud noise every time the rat appeared. Pair the rat with loud noise and the rat becomes the cs, the fear becomes the cr: results: Albert generalized fear to other fuzzy things. Watson and rayner didn"t extinguish albert"s fear. Ex) being shot at is ucs which produces fear ucr.