PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Conditioning, Contiguity, Confounding

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Repeatedly presented just after the neutral response. Continues to procedure an unconditioned response phobia is a psychological disorder (differs on severity) acquired through classical conditioning. Seeing someone afraid of a snake makes you scared too observation learning. Cognitive learning (learning by watching what someone is doing) Little albert (trying to create a phobia through his son) Showed him a mouse after banging a gong behind his head creating a phobia through classical conditioning (cc) (us) gong fear (ur) mouse + going (cs) mouse fear (cr) With a phobia, only need one traumatic experience to induce a phobia. There is a way to undo a phobia (next term) Some people develop a phobia for certain things but not others ex- spiders, clowns, heights, snakes. You have it in your voluntary control. Cc gives you the illicit feeling and buy one type of pop over another. Taking ordinary classical conditioning and taking it one step further.