PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Startle Response, Behaviorism, Little Albert Experiment
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Learning manner in which we learn to behave in certain ways given certain env. conditions. Stimulus-response mappings and how they"re formed sr psychology (stimulus-response) We come equipped with many stimulus response mappings that re ect our machinery in action e. g. digestive processes starting when we put food in our mouths. Associations are the products of evolution and their components are labeled as unconditioned stimuli and unconditioned responses; conditioned = learned so unconditioned is unlearned. Occurrence of some novel stimulus in env (ucs) tends to lead to a startle response (ucr) If stimulus occurs repeatedly w/o positive/negative consequence, startle response stops. Habituation e. g. those weird noises in your house that you no longer hear. If ucr proves itself unnecessary in presence of ucs, it will occur less and less. Classical conditioning: the extension of sr mappings to new stimuli. 1904, ivan pavlov found classical conditioning, which explains how new stimuli can come to be associated with certain behavioural responses.
