PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Little Albert Experiment
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Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. One of those responsible for turning psychology from research focussing on subjective accounts of experience, introspection, to a more objective, rigorous, scientific approach. Work showed how stimuli in the external world controlled our actions and behaviour. Showed how associations could be built up in consciousness. Studied the role of saliva in the digestive processes of dogs. As the study progressed he noticed that dogs would salivate in respond to a clicking sound made by the device that presented the powder, before the powder itself was presented. Pavlov demonstrated that learned associations were formed by events in an organism"s environment. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. Unconditioned response (ucr): an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning.
