PSYS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Organism, Mary Cover Jones, Little Albert Experiment
3 Oct 2016
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Acquisition of fears: little albert: watson and reyner (1920) sought to disprove the freudian view of phobia, reflecting deep-seated unconscious conflict. Renewal effect tendency of extinguished cr to return when revisiting the original conditioning environment: phobias can be subject to this (as well as to spontaneous recovery) Learning theory/classical conditioning led to the conditioning model of phobias. Classical conditioning also offers a way to get rid of phobia: mary cover jones (1924) successfully treated 3-year-old peter, who had a phobia of rabbits, by slowly introducing a rabbit paired with candy. Similar exposure therapy is still main behavioral treatment. Higher-order conditioning process by which organisms develop classically conditioned response to cs"s associated with original cs: second-order conditioning, occasion setters . Advertising pairing positive ucss with positive css. Acquiring behaviors as a result of the outcome or consequence of those behaviors: the organism gets something out of the response of operates on its environment.
