PS102 Chapter Notes -Mirror Neuron, Social Anxiety Disorder, Antibody
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Week one: useful for behavior change, considers reinforces and punishers foundation of behaviorism, learning: any relative durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience, 3 classical approaches, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning. Classical conditioning: one of the simplest forms of learning, a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus, came from pavlovian conditioning . Psychic reflex: showed how stimuli in the external world controlled our actions and behavior. Depends on the similarity of the original cs and the new stimulus. Conditioned young boy to be scared if anything white and furry by banging a metal sheet every time he tried to touch it: classical john b. watson & raynor expirement. Conditioned little albert to be afraid of white rats by pairing the stimulus (rats) with an unconditioned stimulus (loud noises)
