PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Two different degrees ; if problematic or not. Watson : (cid:494)case of little albert(cid:495), his one year old presented a mouse high chair and a. Developpe phobia for things that are adaptive : common : snakes, spiders, heights gong sound behind him. Food, salavation basic classical conditionning model and taking it one step further. Higher order condition : when a well established condition stimulus starts acting as though it were an uncondition stimulus and is able to bring the condition response under the control of another conditional stimulus. Another thing : light with the bell, light-> illicite a salavation response. Pavlov(cid:495)s discovery further more down the salavation gets weaker as a 3rd, Stimilus generalization : when a stimulus that(cid:495)s similar to the original condion illicites a condition response. Fear to the rat isn(cid:495)t produced. stimulus illicites a condition response. Ex : white mouse (condition stimulus paired with the gong), white rat presented instead.