PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Little Albert Experiment, B. F. Skinner, Classical Conditioning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Learning: as the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours. Higher order conditioning: if the dog becomes conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell, can the dog be conditioned to salivate when a light flashes by association it with the bell instead of with food: yes! The conditioned response can be transferred from the us to cs then from there to another cs: this is higher order conditioning: turning a ns into a cs by associating it with another. The ur now gets triggered by a cs: timing: for the association to be acquired, the neutral stimulus needs to repeatedly appear before the unconditioned stimulus (half a second before, extinction: refers to the diminishing of conditioned response. If the us stops appearing with the cs, the cr decreases: spontaneously recovery: after a rest period, and without any new learning trials, the reappearance of a previously extinguished cr.