PSYC 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Little Albert Experiment, Neurosis, Classical Conditioning
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A reappearance of the conditioned stimulus to conditioned response relationship after a period of extinction. Suggests that extinction is not unlearning but is a process of inhibiting the learned conditioning of conditioned stimulus to conditioned response. Inhibition can be blocked or disrupted and results in old behavior returning. Expanding of the conditioned response to items that are similar to the original conditioned stimulus (ex- little albert fearing all white fluffy things) The closer to the new stimulus is to the original conditioned stimulus, the stronger the conditioned response will be. The tendency for the conditioned response to be elicited only to the specific stimuli upon which conditioning occurred. Useful method to test subjects ability to differentiate between stimuli. Discrimination training- only make a response to a change in stimuli. Used with animal and infant research, as well as perception studies. Discrimination overload- if difference between stimuli is too small to detect but keep trying to train for discrimination.
