07 12 2012 10 03 00 Lecture 5 Behavioral Psychology Conditioning need to always figure out if its classical conditioning or if its operant coniditoning Classical conditioning natural behaviors o When you pair automatic response with something that o The outcome behavior SHOULD BE AUTOMATIC Operant conditioning unnatural behaviors o You can use conditional conditioning to get operant doesn t conditioning o Training a person animal to do complex unnatural behaviors o Trying to create new behaviors that are not automatic EX clicker training Classical Conditions Pavlov his experiment o It is totally natural for a dog to salivate o You can make a dog salivate when you ring a bell Little Albert watson o Same thing as Pavlov CLASSICAL CONDITIONING Neutral stimulus doesn t have an natural response to something Unconditional response born response Unconditional stimulus Conditional response Behavior is the same thing for the UCR and the CR this is because the baby gets the natural response for the UCR and then the Neutral stimulus becomes the CS Pairing when you assosciate the neutral stimulus with the unconditional stimulus forwards backward o Forward short pairing you give neutral stimulus first then get the conditional stimulus Ex you would pair the neutral stimulus the rat then you would give the bang unconditional stimulus this needs to be a natural response then causes for the baby to cry In this case the bang would be UCS In this case the UCR and the CR are the same In this case the neutral stimulus and the the conditional stiumuls CS are the same o Delay how long you wait between the two stimulus Pavlov Neutral stimulus metronoum UCS meat powder unconditional stimulus UCR you will get the salvation Then you need to pair the UCS with the UCR CR salvting CS metronom Example His front door became the CS to pee right when he gets Classical condition roommate to cry needs to be a natural response CS CRY UCS CRY CS and UCS always be the same behavior NS when the microwave goes off CR when the microwave goes off NS and CR always the same UCR beating something that makes youre roommate cry back need to pair the NS and the UCR everytime the microwave goes off then you need to beat your roommate to make it into a CS until EVERYTIME the microwave goes off hes going to automatically cry Can you condition love CR and UCR heart beat fast Ex teacher wants the girls heart beat fast when she sees him NS and CS teacher UCR caffeine pill natural response a girls heartbeat will go fast when she eats caffeine pill make sure to pair it Generalization you get the response to something that is SIMILAR to the condition stimulus that was not actively paired Happens around the conditional stimulus CS Little Albert was afraid of anything that was white and furry o Little Albert generalized the white rat with anything white and fluffy o EX if you are a bird fear with all CATS b c of the cat Phoebe who tries to eat the bird Discrimination when you can discriminate the specific stimulus from others that are similar Birds can discriminate poisonous berries from non poisonous berries Strength of the Associations many associations can go away The Garcia Effect VERY STRONG example of classical conditioning Specifically has to do with food Only needs one pairing and a really long delay and it can last for lifetime NS and CS chocolate bar CR and UCR puking UCR is different from the CR because the UCR is a natural response UCS migraines migraines naturally cause for you to puke distinguish from what actually causes for you to become sick the candy bar wasn t what caused for you to become sick For the exam should be able to do this
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