PSY 351 Study Guide - Final Guide: Belief, Masculinity, Assertiveness
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Focuses on events in the environment that help produce behavior: believes we should study observable behavior. Tone + food > leads to > salivation. Neutral stimulus > leads to no response (no fear) Rat + loud noise > leads to > fear. Cr: watson wanted to take pavlov"s idea one step further & see if he could condition an emotion. Extinction of the cr > present the cs (tone) but dog does not get food. Opening can of food for cat > expecting food > if food stops being provided after noise of opening can, the cat will stop coming. Spontaneous recovery of the cr > reappearance of the cs after time. Extinction then recovery > starting to give food again (after a time lapse) after opening the can, eventually cat will come back for the food from excitement. F: generalization: respond to stimuli similar to the cs.
