PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Krypto, Reward System, Little Albert Experiment

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Steeves

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Chapter 6 : evolution the changes in behaviour that accumulates across generations are stored. Learning in the genes: learning the changes in behaviour that accumulate over a lifetime are stored in the central nervous system. Ivan pavlov conditioned dogs to salivate when a tone was presented. Psychology should be purely a objective, experimental branch of natural science : believed that psychology had failed as a science, disliked introspection and hypothetical concepts. I. e. decisions, knowledge, perception, consciousness, etc : took the idea of classical conditioning and observed that it could be done on humans in order to induce a physical response (i. e. fear ) Little albert"s fear of the white rat generalized to the furry rabbit: believed that one could use conditioning to affect humans in drastic ways. Classical conditioning concepts: acquisition, generalization and discrimination, higher-order conditioning, extinction, spontaneous recovery, practical applications.