Behaviorists

Question 1

Classical conditioning

Answer 1

1 behavior labeled 2 possible ways

Unconditioned stimulus (food) instinctly leads to an unconditioned response (salivation)
Conditioned stimulus (bell) after pairing the bell to the food leads to a learned conditioned response (salivation)

Question 2

Watson

Classical conditioning

Answer 2

Study done: make children afraid of white furry things

• gave clild white rat and bunny and was not afraid; creates a loud noise which causes the child to cry and screech
• child associates loud noise and crying to the white furry animal

Question 3

Classical conditioning

Answer 3

Unconditioned stimulus (loud noise) leads to the unconditioned response (crying), therefore the conditioned stimulus (furry animal) now leads to the conditioned response (crying) because they are associated with each other in the child’s mind

Question 4

Latency

Answer 4

Studied concept that’s the time delay between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus (CS must come before US)
The shorter the latency, the more likely learning will occur

Question 5

Spontaneous recovery

Answer 5

Reoccurrence of response after extinction has occurred

Question 6

Extinction

Answer 6

Unlearning if you do not keep the two things paired together

Question 7

Generalization

Answer 7

Present stimuli similar to what you conditioned with; the learning will still occur
Example - the child is afraid of mother’s fur coat and bunny mask

Question 8

Distinction

Answer 8

Distinguish between things and sources not general

Example - street lights, don’t stop whenever it changes, which changed

Question 9

Watson believed that the only true emotion humans have is

Answer 9

Fear

Question 10

Pavlov

What is classical conditioning?

Answer 10

The study done - dog and salvation , when the bell sounded with the meat (as a cue), eventually the dog salivated at the sound of a bell

Dog instinctly salivated at food = not learned, body does it
Dog learned salivation at bell = learn to salivate