PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Rosalie Rayner, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning
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Classic conditioning- aka pavlovian conditioning- response naturally elicited by one stimulus comes to be elicited by a different, formerly neutral stimulus: pavlov"s conditioning experiments- was studying digestive processes. He inserted tubes in dogs" salivary glands to gage how much they drool. He noticed the dogs salivated before the food was placed in their mouths. Pavlov came up with an experiment where he sounded a bell just before food was brought in. Cs is presented (salivating to the bell: phobias- irrational fears of particular things, activities, or situations, the little albert study by john watson and rosalie rayner. When he approached the rat, experimenters made a loud noise by striking a steel bar. Then when he saw the rat he automatically cried: classical condition is selective. Why don"t people have phobias about: preparedness- some stimuli serve readily as cs for certain kinds of almost anything? responses. Learning- experience or practice results in relatively permanent change in behavior.
