PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Conditioning, Little Albert Experiment, Learning

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: online

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Had test tubes hooked up to the saliva glands of dogs to collect the spit. Noticed after a few days of giving them food, that every time he walked to the dogs to give them food, the saliva would start to flow. The question became, why are there salivating before the food was given to them. unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, Before conditioning, the food or ucs would produce a ucr where a neutral stimulus would produce no salivation. During conditioning, when the ucs is repeatedly presented just after the neutral stimulus, the ucs to produce an unconditioned response. Classical conditioning: learning is the association of a conditioned stimulus or a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to the extent that the conditioned stimulus produces the unconditioned response. Pavlov didn"t understand the implication but john watson took the ideas of pavlov. Watson thought that you shouldn"t study thoughts but what is observable.