PSYC 101 1st Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture - Prejudice Outline of Current Lecture Roots of Prejudice - Social - Emotion - CognitiveSocial Prejudice - grouping people by their race, gender, ethnicity Emotional Prejudice - provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame Cognitive Prejudice - one way we simplify our world is to categorize, by stereotyping- just world phenomenon - people get what they deserve - vivid cases that feed into prejudice, such as terrorism done by Islamic extremists Discrimination - the act of applying the prejudice Learning Learning - is a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience - Classical Learningo Is automatic and controlled by autonomic systems - Operant Learningo Is a voluntary learned behavior Behaviorism - is an objective science - Pavlov (salivating dog), Watson (little albert), Skinner (rat maze)- Studies behavior - Includes cognition and states how a caricature of behaviorism would claim that cognition is completely ignored Acquisition - is initial learning of the stimulus response relationship These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- As the neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus are paired more often, the conditioned response becomes stronger Extinction - diminished conditioned response when an unconditioned stimulus no longer follows the conditioned stimulus John Garcia - challenged the idea that all association can be learned equally Biological predisposition - humans can develop nausea through classical conditioning Paradigm shift - repeated replications demonstrated that delayed conditioning is a genuine phenomenonCaffeine - popular psychoactive drug Current Lecture- Operant
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