PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Corporal Punishment, Behavior Modification, Little Albert Experiment

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

In food aversions, delay between ucs and cs may be longer and still be effective: types of classical conditioning, avoidance learning is a type of classical conditioning in which the cs is paired with an unpleasant. Ucs so that the organism tries to avoid the cs: a conditioned emotional response - emotional response elicited by a previously neutral stimulus. This can be seen in occurrences of avoidance learning. (2) physical punishment may elicit increased aggressive behavior in the person being punished. (3) through classical conditioning, the person being punished may learn to fear the punisher. Behavior modification brings about behavioral change through the use of secondary reinforcers: the timing of reinforcement can affect its value. Immediate reinforcement is generally more effective, especially with animals, than delayed reinforcement: generalization, discrimination, extinction, and spontaneous recovery all occur in operant conditioning as well as in classical conditioning.