PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Puzzle Box, Negative Approach, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Roderick Gillis

Document Summary

Extinction trials= in early research if pair stimuli without linking it then the subject will eventually stop responding. Spontaneous recovery subject begins to act in same way learned in the beginning of experiment after pause (or long period of time) in between. Generalization applying one situation"s learning to another situation that is similar. Discrimination the failure to generalize previous learning, when the situation is different enough: therapy. Phobias without reason, and is only a problem if it is dysfunctional, and you are unable to go about living your life. Counter-conditioning treatment to un-learn negative/positive response to stimuli. Systematic desensitization wolfe; therapist asks you to think of picture of object that causes dysfunction. Work through it systematically and think of which image, makes you least to most uncomfortable; teach person deep relaxation in presence of least disruptive image to the most disruptive image.