Here are my notes on this topic:
1. People
- Ivan Pavlov
- Pavlov’s dogs
- food produces salivation
- neutral stimulus produces some salivating
- multiple pairing (50+)
- bell, click, etc.
- Watson
- psychology as science
- Morgan’s canon
- behaviorism
- black box
- white rat psychologist
- Little Albert
- fear is classically conditioned
- stimulus discrimination: respond to one stimulus but not another
- higher-order conditioning: CS functions as UCS
- Bekhterev
- father of objective. psychology
- hippocampus & memory
- Bekhterev’s disease (ankylosing spondylitis)
- killed by Stalin?
2. Components
- Reflexes
- Associated stimuli elicit a response
- reflex plus triggering stimulus produces reflex-like response
- phobias: irrational fears
- claustrophobia
- PTSD
- low level processing
- Classical Conditioning
- unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
- unconditioned response (UCR)
- conditioned stimulus (CS)
- conditioned response (CR)
- Sometimes, the UCR and the CR can be the same level
- conditioning happens gradually.
- trial: any pairing of stimuli
- examples: elevators, emotional response (shoes), smell, arousal, and drugs
- acquisition stage
- extinction
- spontaneous recovery
- stimulus generalization
3. Timings
- order of presentation
- forward conditioning
- simultaneous conditioning
- backward conditioning
- trace conditioning
- inter-stimulus interval (ISI)
4. Latent Inhibition
- unfamiliarity
- blocking
- size
- stimulus generalization
- connections are strong
- discrimination
- experimental neurosis
- reinforcement
- associations, not substitutions
- limbic system
- limits
5. Spontaneous Recovery
- extinction
- spontaneous recovery
- reinstatement
