PSY 1101 Chapter Notes -Operant Conditioning Chamber, Classical Conditioning, Little Albert Experiment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Learning and behavior: learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior (or behavioral potential) due to experience, behaviorism: emphasizes the study of observable behavior and the role of the environment as a determinant of behavior. Habituation: the simplest form of learning, learning not to respond to an important event that occurs repeatedly ex. Classical conditioning: pavlov"s serendipitous discovery, by observing dogs during the digestion process, pavlov formulated his theory of classical conditioning, unconditioned = natural/re exive response/no learning involved (ur, conditioned response = learned (cr) Learning and behavior 3: generalization, the occurrence of responding to a stimulus similar to the discriminative stimulus, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses. Learning to fear: watson conditioned little albert to be afraid of white rats by pairing the neutral stimulus (rats) with an unconditioned stimulus (loud noise, within days, albert was afraid of rats and to other furry objects.