PSYC 305- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 77 pages long!)
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Learning perspective chapter 10 10/30/2014 7:01:00 pm. Behaviourism: emerged as a reaction to the work of freud. Behaviourists suggested that there are 2 learning processes that determine behaviour and, thus, personality: classical conditioning. Learning occurs by repeatedly pairing a neutral stimulus w/a stimulus that produces a reflexive response. Eg. pavlov repeatedly paired presentation of food w/the ringing of a bell. After several pairings, the bell was able to induce salivation in the dogs in the absence of any food: us: food, ur: salivation, cs: ringing of a bell, cr: salivation. Eg. little albert (watson) boy exposed to a white rat (had no fear to begin with), metal bar crash when rat was presented: us: sound, ur: fear, cs: rat, cr: fear. Higher order conditioning: former cs now acts as an us for a new instance of conditioning. Generalization: responding in a similar way to a similar (but not identical) stimuli)
