PSY 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Systematic Desensitization, Exposure Therapy
9 Dec 2016
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Different schools of thought: psychoanalysis, behaviorism and cognitive psychology. Empiricist philosophers (locke and berkeley) argued that learning involves the forming of learning : a change in behavior or beliefs based on experience simple associations. More complex learning simply involves many associations, layer upon each other. All learning depends on the same mechanisms and should be governed by the same principles. Modern learning theorists: most learning can be understood in terms of a small number of principles that apply to all organisms in all situation. Change in heart rate or blood pressure (us: loud noise) Emotional response anger, disgust, nausea, anxiety, phobias. Emotional response to songs, smell, social situation. In classical conditioning, animals learn about the association between one stimulus and another. An unconditioned stimulus (us, such as food) Elicits an unconditioned response (ur, such as salivation) Dog in harness, collecting tube from salivary glands, salivating (cr), measuring cup for saliva, meant powder can be delivered to dish (us)
