BCS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Little Albert Experiment, Animal Cognition, Operant Conditioning
30 Jul 2018
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Kicked off the field with his studies of animal behavior in the laboratory. [previous works] have all been about animal intelligence, never about animal stupidity. (p. 3) What do they feel (while doing it) Animal learns association slowly gets better over time. Almost everything comes from experience & innate faculties. I am not a cognitive psychologist for several reasons. I see no evidence of an inner world of mental life . The appeal to cognitive states and processes is a diversion which could well be responsible for much of our failure to solve our problems. (p. 10) Dogs placed in a harness, and shock-box. A pressing the panel stopped a shock stimulus. B yoked to the timing of group a. At test: placed in a shuttle-box can slide harness to different part of box to avoid shock. Group a, almost all moved to avoid shock. Group b, 67% just sat and howled / whined / defecated.
