Mastering Classical Conditioning

Classical Conditioning: From Pavlov to Watson

• The lectures trace a historical journey through psychology, starting with early theories of learning and ending with an understanding of internal mental processes.

• Classical conditioning is one of the most fundamental forms of learning.

• Learning outcomes for classical conditioning include understanding terminology and phenomena, generating hypotheses, and interpreting graphs.

• Classical conditioning allows organisms to predict the future and potentially save themselves from harm.

• Learning is defined as biological, cognitive, and social processes that produce long-lasting changes in behavior, abilities, and knowledge.

• Two fundamental forms of non-associative learning are sensitization and habituation.

• Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning that involves a predictive relationship between a neutral stimulus and a biologically significant event.

• Pavlov's dogs learned to predict the presentation of food and salivated automatically before the food was presented.

• Classical conditioning involves learning a predictive relationship between a neutral stimulus and a biologically significant event, producing a learned reflex response.

• The three phases of classical conditioning are the conditions before conditioning, during conditioning (learning associations), and after conditioning.

• In conditioning, the initially neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus, and the unconditioned response becomes a conditioned response.

• A generic learning curve for a classically conditioned response shows the strength of the response as a function of the number of conditioning trials.Classical Conditioning and the Little Albert Experiment

• Classical conditioning is the learning of a predictive relationship between a neutral stimulus and a biologically significant event.

• A formerly neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus that can cause a conditioned reflex response.

• Pavlov demonstrated that the classically conditioned salivation response would generalize to other similar stimuli.

• Stimulus generalization is the phenomenon of how strong the conditioned response will be to other similar stimuli not experienced during the training trials.

• Stimulus discrimination is training an animal to produce the response only to a specific stimulus.

• Extinction is the process of extinguishing a conditioned response.

• Spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of a conditioned response after a period of rest following extinction.

• Rapid reacquisition is the quicker re-learning of a conditioned response after sustained extinction.

• Watson believed in the role of conditioned learning in shaping human development and set out to demonstrate classical conditioning in a human infant.

• The Little Albert experiment demonstrated the acquisition of a classically conditioned fear response in a human infant.

• The formerly neutral stimulus in the Little Albert experiment was a white rat.

• The Little Albert experiment is foundational for understanding phobias and other anxiety and stress disorders.

Classical Conditioning: From Pavlov to Watson

• The lectures trace a historical journey through psychology, starting with early theories of learning and ending with an understanding of internal mental processes.

• Classical conditioning is one of the most fundamental forms of learning.

• Learning outcomes for classical conditioning include understanding terminology and phenomena, generating hypotheses, and interpreting graphs.

• Classical conditioning allows organisms to predict the future and potentially save themselves from harm.

• Learning is defined as biological, cognitive, and social processes that produce long-lasting changes in behavior, abilities, and knowledge.

• Two fundamental forms of non-associative learning are sensitization and habituation.

• Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning that involves a predictive relationship between a neutral stimulus and a biologically significant event.

• Pavlov's dogs learned to predict the presentation of food and salivated automatically before the food was presented.

• Classical conditioning involves learning a predictive relationship between a neutral stimulus and a biologically significant event, producing a learned reflex response.

• The three phases of classical conditioning are the conditions before conditioning, during conditioning (learning associations), and after conditioning.

• In conditioning, the initially neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus, and the unconditioned response becomes a conditioned response.

• A generic learning curve for a classically conditioned response shows the strength of the response as a function of the number of conditioning trials.Classical Conditioning and the Little Albert Experiment

• Classical conditioning is the learning of a predictive relationship between a neutral stimulus and a biologically significant event.

• A formerly neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus that can cause a conditioned reflex response.

• Pavlov demonstrated that the classically conditioned salivation response would generalize to other similar stimuli.

• Stimulus generalization is the phenomenon of how strong the conditioned response will be to other similar stimuli not experienced during the training trials.

• Stimulus discrimination is training an animal to produce the response only to a specific stimulus.

• Extinction is the process of extinguishing a conditioned response.

• Spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of a conditioned response after a period of rest following extinction.

• Rapid reacquisition is the quicker re-learning of a conditioned response after sustained extinction.

• Watson believed in the role of conditioned learning in shaping human development and set out to demonstrate classical conditioning in a human infant.

• The Little Albert experiment demonstrated the acquisition of a classically conditioned fear response in a human infant.

• The formerly neutral stimulus in the Little Albert experiment was a white rat.

• The Little Albert experiment is foundational for understanding phobias and other anxiety and stress disorders.

Classical Conditioning: From Pavlov to Watson

• The lectures trace a historical journey through psychology, starting with early theories of learning and ending with an understanding of internal mental processes.

• Classical conditioning is one of the most fundamental forms of learning.

• Learning outcomes for classical conditioning include understanding terminology and phenomena, generating hypotheses, and interpreting graphs.

• Classical conditioning allows organisms to predict the future and potentially save themselves from harm.

• Learning is defined as biological, cognitive, and social processes that produce long-lasting changes in behavior, abilities, and knowledge.

• Two fundamental forms of non-associative learning are sensitization and habituation.

• Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning that involves a predictive relationship between a neutral stimulus and a biologically significant event.

• Pavlov's dogs learned to predict the presentation of food and salivated automatically before the food was presented.

• Classical conditioning involves learning a predictive relationship between a neutral stimulus and a biologically significant event, producing a learned reflex response.

• The three phases of classical conditioning are the conditions before conditioning, during conditioning (learning associations), and after conditioning.

• In conditioning, the initially neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus, and the unconditioned response becomes a conditioned response.

• A generic learning curve for a classically conditioned response shows the strength of the response as a function of the number of conditioning trials.Classical Conditioning and the Little Albert Experiment

• Classical conditioning is the learning of a predictive relationship between a neutral stimulus and a biologically significant event.

• A formerly neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus that can cause a conditioned reflex response.

• Pavlov demonstrated that the classically conditioned salivation response would generalize to other similar stimuli.

• Stimulus generalization is the phenomenon of how strong the conditioned response will be to other similar stimuli not experienced during the training trials.

• Stimulus discrimination is training an animal to produce the response only to a specific stimulus.

• Extinction is the process of extinguishing a conditioned response.

• Spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of a conditioned response after a period of rest following extinction.

• Rapid reacquisition is the quicker re-learning of a conditioned response after sustained extinction.

• Watson believed in the role of conditioned learning in shaping human development and set out to demonstrate classical conditioning in a human infant.

• The Little Albert experiment demonstrated the acquisition of a classically conditioned fear response in a human infant.

• The formerly neutral stimulus in the Little Albert experiment was a white rat.

• The Little Albert experiment is foundational for understanding phobias and other anxiety and stress disorders.