PSYC36H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: B. F. Skinner, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Reinforcement

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28 May 2013
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Behaviour can be an emotion, thought or action: learning. > a relatively enduring change in behaviour (whenever we talk about someone who is messed up, at one point they had an adaptive focus) > it occurs when animals benefit from experience so that their behavior is better adapted to the environment. Ex. phobia: we are genetically predisposed to fear things like the dark, bugs, wild animals, blood, heights, etc: acquisition. > contiguity the two stimuli are bonded together in time (ex. If albert saw the rat and played with him for an hour, then he got scared, that"s not really going to condition him: stimulus generalization. > john watson : it could be a white rabbit and it could still elicit the same response (because it looks similar to the white rat: extinction: > presentation of feared stimulus without the occurrence of the feared response: habituation:

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