PSYCH101 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 Lecture 5 notes

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

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Through these associations, the child learns about the things in their world: i. e. : mommy + milk association, ivan pavlov; a biologist, not a psychologist, but best known for his psychology research. 1: bell no salivation, bell + food = salivation, bell salivation. Conditioned response (salivation: classical conditioning does not require conscious effort. It occurs naturally: learning is a relatively permanent acquisition of new behaviour as a result of experience. His professor failed him as promised, causing watson to not be admitted to princeton. Watson devises a plan to later on make this professor"s life a living hell : he is hired to john hopkins"s university once he gets his phd (along the lines of his plan). The chair of the psychology dept. is dismissed due to a scandal concerning a grad student, and watson is given the position at age 29.