PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Barenaked Ladies, B. F. Skinner, Language Acquisition

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Spencer

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Then he did it when he was holding the bowl. They salivated each time: the dogs were conditioned to his footsteps meaning food. He then rang a bell when he brought the food, and they would salivate: stimuli create responses. Dogs salivating to food is an unconditioned response to an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned responses can be associated with a conditioned stimulus. Money is another example of a conditioned stimulus. James watson: through conditioning, you can train a child to be scared/happy etc with anything, learning by association (conditioning, watson argued that the below (learning and unlearning) is how you can change a person, little albert. Watson scared him and conditioned him to be scared of the rat (association of the noise with the rat) Classical conditioning: all you can see is natural responses, there are a lot of behaviours that have no unconditioned stimuli.