PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Tantrum, Little Albert Experiment, Operant Conditioning
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New acquisition of new knowledge, skills, response from experience that result in relatively permanent changes o. Repeated exposure to some stimulus in the environment. Habituation getting used to a stimulus; the stimulus does not affect us as strongly. Sensitization repeated exposure leads to increased sensitivity to a later stimulus. Associate stimuli in environment with a behavioural response. Recall: watson was the founder of the behaviouralist school of thought, and stated that the mind could not be studied objectively o. Ivan pavlov: russian physiologist who studied the digestive system of dogs. Surgically implanted a tube to measure the amount of saliva secreted by salivary glands into mouths of dogs. These are clearly observable and objective responses, so it proves that we do not need to understand the mind to obtain these responses. Definition: when a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response o.
