PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Foodborne Illness, Little Albert Experiment, Toothpaste
27 Jul 2019
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Natural associations: fresh cookies mother/grandmother. Linked stimuli in mind evolutionary advantage. Body starts response to 2nd stimulus before appears. Worms learn by association too: learning: process behaviour/knowledge change b/c experience. Pavlov"s dogs: classical salivation conditioning: classical/pavlovian conditioning: form of associative learning, organism associates neutral stimulus w/ biologically relevant stimulus, change in response to previously neutral stimulus. Used dogs as model for digestion, collected saliva, gastric secretions when shown meat powder. Digestive response not simple reflex elicited by food. Salivate when wait for food, salivary response learned psychic secretions . Dogs linked sound food, metronome elicits salivation w/o food! Presented sound from ticking metronome/other devices, meat powder. Response occurs if event important or not. Stimuli may cause instinctive response (no learning needed) Unconditioned = automatic, conditioned = learned: unconditioned stimulus (us): stimulus elicits reflexive response w/o learning. E. g. pain, sexual contact, food: unconditioned response (ur): reflexive, naturally occurring unlearned reaction to us. Dog"s parents didn"t teach to salivate, natural response.
