PSYCH101 Lecture 4: ONLINE Week 4 / Module 4 - Developmental Psychology 1
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Interested in studying spit (particularly dog spit) Had test tubes hooked to saliva glands of dogs to collect spit. Noticed that after a few days of giving them food, every time he walked up to the dogs to give them food, they would start salivating. Wanted to understand why they were salivating before seeing the food. Learning is the association of a conditioned stimulus or neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to the extent that the conditioned stimulus produces the unconditioned response. He did not realize what learning could come from this. Wanted to study what is observable and used pavlovian principles to teach. Taught a child (albert) to fear anything soft and furry. Idea was that you could teach something to someone which did not make any sense. Only behaviour that can be affected is one that the organism (dog or little albert) would normally do. Cannot get the organism to do new behaviours.
