PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Little Albert Experiment, Drug Tolerance, Classical Conditioning
23 Oct 2016
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Chapter twelve - the behavioural approach the behavioural approach emphasizes the study of overt (observable) behaviours and the environmental conditions that influence them. Behavioural psychologists usually focus on the processes of classical conditioning or operant conditioning. Classical conditioning involves pairing stimuli such that an automatic, reflexive response evoked by one of the stimuli comes over time to also be evoked by the paired (previously neutral) stimulus the original discovery of this process was accidental. Ivan pavlov (1849) was studying the digestive processes of dogs. To induce salivation, meat powder was placed on the dog"s tongues. Noticed that they salivated even before the meat powder was presented. P"s first approach to understanding the process was through introspection -- trying to imagine the situation from the dog"s point of view. P reasoned that the animal"s natural, or reflexive, tendency to respond to the food in its mouth with w salivation had somehow also come to be evoked from the sight of food.
