CAS PS 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Little Albert Experiment, Edward Thorndike, Tabula Rasa
11 Apr 2017
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Learning relative changes in behavior that is acquired through experience and not caused by maturation, injury, or physiology. One topic most closely associated with american psychology. Reaction to the dogmatic (unscientific) thinking of freud and his followers. Watson (first american behaviorist) and thorndike (the link between classical and operant. Classical conditioning pavlov (involuntary, associative, paired, elicited behaviors) Radical behaviorism skinner (voluntary, emitted behaviors shaping, generalization) Combined with cognitive psychology (ret) cognitive distortions. Also with social learning (now social cognitive) Phase 1: ucs (meat powder) ucr (salivation) Phase 2: ucs (meat powder) + cs (bell tone) ucr (salivation) Phase 3: cs (bell tone alone) cr (salivation) One of the most controversial characters in psychology. Phase 2: ucs (meat powder) ucr (salivation) {cs (bell tone) + cs2 (e. g. environment: gray block )} generalization. Phase 3: cs (bell tone alone) or cs2 ( gray block ) cr (salivation) When albert plays with the rabbit, watson bangs two pipes together behind his head.
