PSYC 2330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Group R, Stereotypy, Saccharin

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

Habituation sensitization, and classical conditioning do not require the participant to make a particular response to obtain food or other unconditioned/conditioned stimuli. Classical conditioning reflects how organisms adjust to events in their environment that they do not directly control. Thorndike was originally interested in animal intelligence, especially when darwin s research indicated that human intellectual capacities were present in animals as well. Initially the animals were slow in their responses but then they got out of the box faster and faster. If a response in the presence of a stimulus is followed by: a satisfying event, the association between the stimulus (s) and the response (r) is strengthened. Compels the organism to make response r whenever stimulus s occurs (ex. compulsive habits such as biting ones nails) Modern approaches to the study of instrumental conditioning. Similar to thorndike (putting animal in apparatus and ends with removal after response) Application of these steps can be tricky!