PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Exposure Therapy, Organism, Scientific Modelling

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Mark Dallas

Document Summary

Chapter 7: learning and conditioning (1 of 2) Works on already established behaviour patterns (automatic responses of the body) Biologically adaptive: helps organism prepare for good or bad events (responses help to protect us = survival) Pavlov: studied dogs" digestive systems, accidentally discovered classical condition when working with salivation of dogs. Measured how much spit is produced when dog is exposed to different foods/amounts. Salivation reflex" dogs began salivating when tongues touched food (unconditioned response to unconditioned stimulus) Psychic secretion" after few trials, dogs began salivating before even getting the food because they anticipated it. Then, pavlov associated metronome sound (neutral stimulus) with food. Commissioned reflex" dogs produced saliva with any associated stimulus (conditioned stimulus) they were trained with (conditioned response: behaviourist psychology: assumes the study of learning should be an objective science; studies behaviour w/o considering mental processes. Attributes of classical conditioning: acquisition: initial learning of stimulus-response relation.