PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Little Albert Experiment, Rosalie Rayner, Tabula Rasa

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

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Advertisements do this technique in order to get you interested, pairing a neutral item (volkswagen) with something that affects you mentally. There are two types of association (part of older theories of psychology focus on how we acquire our focus of the world, our behaviours): Contiguity john locke believed in aristotle"s teachings; we arrive in the world with a a) blank slate and then experience determines who we are and what we become, what we acquire and experience. We are a summation of our past experiences. Ivan pavlov russian physiologist who received the nobel prize in 1904 on the digestive system, until came into psychology later on. There was a lot of political revolutions, and being an academic was unsafe in russia. Pavlov receiving all the funding he needed, and his labs were intact during the time. He was set on a high pedestal because he was considered an icon of russia.