PSY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Biofeedback, Token Economy, Applied Behavior Analysis

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Michael Robins

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Learning: relatively permanent changes in behavior due to experience and practice: function of memory, maturation explains biological processes, heredity rather than experience. + conditioned stimulus must come before the ucs in order for association to take place: shorter intervals of cs/usc are more effective. + stimulus generalization: responses can be caused by similar stimulus. + stimulus discrimination: ability to discriminate between conditioned stimulus and stimuli that have not been paired with unconditional stimuli. + conditioned responses can be unlearned: strength of response to conditioned stimuli weakens with time, but complete unlearning is not possible, ucs reinforces cs/cr response. + higher-order conditioning: neutral stimulus can be associated with conditioned stimulus to create a second conditioned stimulus the same way ucs and cs are associated. Little albert: association of a loud, scary noise with a white rat eventually ended up in the child developing a phobia for the white rat (conditioned stimulus: phobia: irrational fear response, learning fearful associations.