PSY 205 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Albert Bandura, Reward System, Little Albert Experiment

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 205
• Professor: Houck

Document Summary

Learning : any relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that is due to past experience. Definition: a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus: focuses on involuntary, automatic behavior (reflexes) Unconditioned stimulus (us): stimulus that evokes an unconditional response without previous conditioning. Conditioned stimulus (cs): previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. Unconditioned response (ucr): unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning (natural response) Classical conditioning often plays a role in in shaping emotional responses: phobia: an irrational fear of specific objects or situations, john b. watson & little albert experiment: Stimulus generalization: when similar stimuli elicit the same cr as the original cs: taste aversion: occurs when the mind develops a negative connotation towards a specific food or drink based off an negative experience.