PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Puzzle Box

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: A.George Alder

Document Summary

Relativity durable change in behaviour that is due to experience. Type of learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Studying tendon reflex; using plastic hammer to hit on knee. Never really associated with classical conditioning due to inconsistency with american psychology. Watson introduced classical conditioning after pavlov & twtmyer. Women fear of snow due to childhood being buried in avalanche. Guy who was afraid of cats due to classical conditioning of his mother"s cats beat him up. Waiting room is a condition stimulus that produce cr nausea. Temporal association between the cs and the ucs. Cs starts just before ucs and they end together. About half a second is the best method. Backward conditioning: extinction, spontaneous recovery, stimulus generalization. Watson & little albert: stimulus discrimination, higher-order conditioning. Ucs is presented and removed before presentation of the cs (ns) Gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency.