PSY BEH 11B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.1-7.3: Japanese Language, Dishabituation, Habituation
20 Oct 2015
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Sensible to focus experiments on simple organisms learning simple patterns (easy experiments, immediately visible principles) Effort toward understanding all learning by studying simple learning: some forms of learning do not follow these general principles. Experimental study of associations: late 1800s (ivan petrovich. Little albert: normal 9 month old infant (white rat, steel bar struck with hammer pairing intense fear of furry animals: sexual arousal: initially neutral word/gesture acquired erotic association. The major phenomena of classical conditioning: classical conditioning: us and ur biologically linked, need sequence of presentations in which cs is paired with us. Then, that stimulus (the cs) is paired with a new neutral stimulus until the new stimulus also elicits the conditioned response) Ex: sight of dentist (cs) paired with discomfort of drill, cs might become fearful; other stimuli associated with cs (sight of office, sound of voice, word dentist, etc. ) these stimuli become fearful, potentially fear of all things dentistry.
