PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Estrada

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Exam 2 study guide (chapters 6, 7, and 8) Infant conditioned to fear a white rat. Experimenters made a loud unpleasant noise every time albert touched the rat, and this made him upset. The rat was initially a neutral stimulus that became a conditioned stimulus. It elicited a conditioned response (the emotional response) similar to the distress (unconditioned response) originally given to the noise (unconditioned stimulus). Little albert"s fear of the white rat also became generalized to other white fluffy things. Unconditioned response (ur) an unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus (us) a stimulus that unconditionally (naturally and automatically) triggers a response. A learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus. An originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response. A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. A stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.