PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Headache, Edward Thorndike, Little Albert Experiment

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

Document Summary

Through these associations, the child learns about the things in their world: i. e. : mommy + milk association research. 1. food salivation: bell no salivation, bell + food = salivation, bell salivation. Unconditioned response (salivation) (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. 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. He hires his old professor that failed him, but the professor gets sick, and watson"s revenge never occurs: watson was the father of the behavioralist movement; bringing. Little albert studies (1920"s); pavlov"s dog theory revisited using a child.