Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexual Arousal, Fetishism, Little Albert Experiment

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Reid

Document Summary

The changes in behavior that accumulate across generations are stored in the genes. The changes in behavior that accumulate over a lifetime are stored in the central nervous system: must study observable behavior, behaviorists argued that. Unobservable phenomenon aren"t necessary for an understanding of human nature: knowledge is learned. Learning occurs when you recognize that one event predicts another. Learned stimulus (ay stimulus you"ve learned to respond to) * salivation in response to object pained with food. *fear as a response to situation paired with pain. Terminology : ucs (unconditional stimulus, ucr (unconditional response, cr (conditional response, cs (conditional stimulus) Indicate the ucs, cs, and cr for the following examples: Every time robert"s wife flushes the toilet when he"s in the shower, the water becomes painfully hot. One day, as robert is stepping into the shower, he hears a flushing sound and flinches.