Unit 4 - Applications of Conditioning Flashcards

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John Garcia / Taste Aversion

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John Garcia: studied taste aversion in rats; let to knowledge that sickness and taste preferences can be conditioned.

Taste Aversion: Associates the taste of a certain food with symptoms caused by a toxic, spoiled, or poisonous substance.

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John B. Watson / Behaviorism

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Objective science, recommended the study of behavior with reference to unobservable mental processes.

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Little Albert Experiment

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Conditioned fear into an infant, Albert generalized his fears to other furry objects.

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Robert Rescorla

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Consistency of the pairing between two stimuli influences the strength of the connection between two stimuli.

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