1. Human Learning
Topic 3: Part 1 Respondent Conditioning Basics
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2. Cause and Effect
 Relations in the world
 Shoes off at airports
 Seattle and rain
 Snow and cold
 Classical Conditioning
 Teaches us some of these
 Most simple form of learning about these relations
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3. Pavlov
 Was studying gastric
secretions
 Dogs produced these
at times not predicted
 Called these psychic
secretions
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4. The components
 Unconditional
Stimulus
 Loud noise
 Conditional Stimulus
 light
 Unconditional
Response
 Startle response
 Conditional
Response
 Startle response
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5. Furry White Objects
 Watson and Little Albert
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6. Sign Tracking
 Autoshaping
 Critters will approach
and contact stimuli that
predict food
 Lit key but no
connection to food
 Pigeons will peck
the key
 Novel wood block
opposite female quail
 Quail will approach
the block
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7. Taste Aversions
 Illness = US
 Tasty food = CS
 Very important evolutionarily
 Very easy to develop
 Chemotherapy
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8. Credits
 www.sxc.hu
 Airport sign: vincitrice
 Rabbit: donzeladef
 Hammer: nighthawk7
 Baby: 04evil
 Fish Sign: thadz
 Tequila: migfresno
 Drooling dog: www.picturesdepot.com
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