PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Startle Response

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Learning: classical conditioning (pavlov covered today) October 18th first test in regular class time worth 28% Be sure to bring photo id. Video 14 also on test. It is on moodle or you can google the title of the film. Behaviorist perspective: our behaviors is shaped by how the environments reacts to our behaviors. Distinction between learning and performance. 3 general types of learning: operant conditioning (skinner, cognitive learning (acquiring mental info) Observational learning learning by observing others. Dog salivating when they smelt food was normal. What was not normal was that dog would salivate to sound bell. Pavlov"s dogs started salivating to sounds of bell: by chance, whenever dog given food a bell sounded by chance. Unconditioned response (ur): an involuntary response (r); a reflexive response that requires no previous learning. Unconditioned stimulus (us): a stimulus (s) that precedes and elicits/triggers ur. Conditioned stimulus (cs): any stimulus that is paired with the. Us and eventually triggers a cr.