PSY 102 Lecture 6: PSY102-Chapter 6
31 Oct 2018
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Learning via association: large amounts of learning occur through association, simple associations provided the mental building blocks for more complex ideas. Ivan pavlov: russian physiologist and 1904 nobel prize winner, most famous for worn on digestion of the dog, first work on classical conditioning. Involves five primary components: neural stimulus (ns, unconditioned stimulus (ucs, unconditioned response (ucr, conditioned stimulus (cs, conditioned response (cr) Acquisition: is the phase during which a cr is established. Spontaneous recovery: sudden re-emergence of an extinct conditioned response after a delay following an extinction procedure. Renewal effect: sudden re-emergence of a conditioned response following extinction when an animal is returned to the environment in which the conditioned response was acquired. Higher order conditioning: process where organisms develop classically conditioned responses to css associated with the original cs, becomes weaker the farther from the original. Applications of cc: helps to explain how and why we acquire some fears and phobias, little albert.
