PSYC1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Discrimination Learning, Little Albert Experiment, Stimulus Control
9 Aug 2018
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Stimulus control: what is stimulus control? classical conditioning. Stimulus control is a feature of instrumental learning but also applies to. Stimulus control: instrumental behaviours are (cid:498)controlled(cid:499) by stimuli with which, the (cid:498)discriminative stimulus(cid:499) informs the subject about the. Psyc1002 lecture 4 learning and motivation: factors important for stimulus control: Basic conditions that are necessary: principles of associative learning. Factors dictating generalization and discrimination: generalisation and discrimination. Every instance in which we encounter a stimulus or event is different. Whenever we learn something, the circumstances in which we learn something will never be replicated (may be similar but there will be differences). Watson and (cid:498)little albert(cid:499): watson and rayner (1920) set out to test generalization of learned. Us: loud clanging noise that automatically elicits a fear from the baby. Acquisition of a fetish by classical conditioning: rachman (1966): sexual arousal as a cr. Generalization is highest for physically similar stimuli. Decreases as the stimuli share less and less in common.
