previously neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit a response through association with a stimulus that already elicits a similar or related response. Discovered by Ivan Pavlov‚ classical conditioning is a form of learning. Pavlov revealed this trait when experimenting with dog’s amounts of saliva in response to meat. He started noticing that after many repetitions‚ the dogs were salivating before the meat was even introduced. Pavlov concluded that some other stimulus that was repetitively
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Dog Phobia Case Study University of Phoenix Psych /504 Personality Theories February 4‚ 2013 Dog Phobia Case Study A phobia is an “irrational fear of a specific object‚ activity‚ or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid the subject of the phobia” (Ankrom‚ 2009 pg.325). Phobias are a type of anxiety disorder that may leave an individual with a strong irrational fear of something that poses very little or no danger to the individual. Phobias‚ to the individual
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AP Psych First Semester Final FRQ Bank Essay 1. Your friend Dave says: “How can you stand to study the history of psychology? Every single one of those theories is basically the same: the brain controls our behavior.” Given the history of psychology‚ evaluate Dave’s claim using the following terms in their appropriate context: •Introspection •Psychoanalytic theory •Behaviorism •Humanistic psychology •Cognitive revolution •Cognitive dissonance •Conformity •Social-cultural perspective 2. Professor
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1. What is light intensity? What is hue? What is chroma? Use the male cardinal as an example for each concept. Why is chroma especially important to the male cardinal? a. Intensity: how bright‚ how many photons hitting it hue: what domain of frequency chroma: how "pure" or saturated color is. Male cardinals use light to attract females 2. A colleague sends you a newly discovered marine fish species that is bright yellow with red accents. However‚ he forgot to tell you where the species
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-Little Albert and the white rat stimulus- an agent that may illicit a response response- a behavior that results from a stimulus neutral stimulus- a stimulus that does not automatically trigger a certain response in almost everyone -doesn’t provoke a response from anyone usually Unconditioned Stimulus (US)- a stimulus that will automatically trigger an innate response -opposite of a neutral stimulus ------> LEADS TO ------> Unconditioned Response (UR)- a response that will
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A CRITIQUE OF THE BEHAVIOURAL THEORIES OF LEARNING One of the most debated issues in psychology pertains to the nature and meaning of learning. The systematic study of learning is relatively new as it was in the late nineteenth century that studies in this realm began in a scientific manner. Psychologists borrowed techniques from the physical sciences‚ and conducted experiments to understand how people and animals learn. Psychologists have tried in the past to define and explain how learning
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Good psychological health is characteristic of a person’s ability to complete some key functions and activities‚ including: learning ability‚ ability of feel‚ expression and management of all kinds of positive and negative emotions‚ the ability to form and maintain good human relations and the ability of deal with and change management and uncertainty. (Mental health foundation) Good psychological health not only is the lack of may diagnose mental health problems‚ although a good mental health may
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to remember something gradually changes in responsiveness due to multiple appearances of the same stimulus. Newborns react to new and different images and actions (recovery to a novel stimulus). For example‚ a new rattle would get a baby’s attention‚ but the child would not really remember it. However‚ as a child grows and develops‚ she will remember that rattle (recovery to the familiar stimulus). Based on Piaget’s sensorimotor stage‚ a child uses her eyes‚ ears‚ and hands to establish a long
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reflects the belief that the client and therapist are partners in therapy Conditioning: a type of learning that involves stimulus response connections in which the response is conditional to the stimulus Central nervous system: Spinal cord and the brain Classical conditioning: a learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a neutral stimulus Collective unconscious: the part of the mind that inherited instincts‚ urges‚ and memories common to all people Consciousness:
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Activity 2 – Watson’s ‘Little Albert’ Experiment Independent Variable - The rat. Dependent Variable - Whether Little Albert cried or not. Unconditioned response - whether he was capable of showing fear or not. Neutral stimulus –The Rat Unconditioned Stimulus –the loud noise. Conditioned Stimulus- loud noise paired with any attempt that albert made to play with the rat Conditioned Response-caused the fearful behaviour Hypothesis – to test the belief that fears can be acquired through classical
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