Psychology of Learning Exam 2

56 cards   |   Total Attempts: 189
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Watson and Raynor
Little albert
Ways to treat anxiety
Flooding, systemic desensitization
Flooding
Present the CS enough times but to dont present us (pretty much through extinctinon)
Systemic desensitization
1. first trained in relaxation techniques
2. Then the client and the therapist construct a fear hierarchy
3. Next the client gradually progresses through the fear hierarchy while performing the relaxation techniques
Exposure therapy with relaxation
1. clench muscles then relax
2. rhythmical breathing
3.relax and think of happy place
Counterconditioning
An aversive CS is paired with an appetitive stimulus
ex. snake :( CS/ ice cream :) US... put them together and UR :) then just snake alone :)
Aversion therapy
To prevent the client from approaching a harmful appetitice stimulus, an appetitive stimulus is paired with the aversive stimulus
- repeated pairings cause the appetitice stimulus to become aversive
In vivo therapies
The client is exposed directly to the Cs
Imaginal therapies
Client imagines the CS in treating a fear
Why would a researcher select in vivo therapy or imaginal therapy
Ethical reasons
impracticality
expensive
Effective ways to influence attitudes
1. repitition of an idea or assertion (validity effect)
2. endorsement by an attractive admired person
3. association of messge with a good feeling
Stimulus substitution theory
CS is substituted for the US
CR should be equivalent to UR
( tone for food and then both cause salivation)
Hollands experiment with rates
Tone- food - saliva
light- food- saliva
CRs had somewhat different form saliva with head jerk/ saliva with rearing
Preparatory response theory
CR prepares the organism for the US
fear - prepares the animal for shock
REscorla WAgner theory
A general theory about classical conditioning (specifically, a theory about how neutral stimli become Css)
a= associative stregth of Us
L= associative strenght of ligh T=tone