PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6,14: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Elizabeth Buvinger

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Classical conditioning - learning that gives a stimulus the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Pavlov - conditioned dogs to salivate to the sound of a tone. Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response. Regulates phobias, mild fears, and pleasant emotional responses. Conditioned response may be wakened and extinguished when cs is no longer paired with us. May generalize to additional stimuli that are similar to the original cs (ex. Rayner"s little albert experiment - baby was afraid of rabbits and fur coats when conditioned to fear a white rat) Discrimination - not responding to stimuli that resemble the original cs. Operant conditioning - learning where responses come to be controlled by their consequences. Skinner - came up with this through skinner boxes. Reinforcement - when an event following a response increases an organism"s tendency to emit that response. Shaping - gradually reinforcing closer and closer approximations of the desired response.