Classical Conditioning Evaluation Cards

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Created on: 30-05-17 17:05

Classical Conditioning STRENGTH- Watson and Rayner (1920)

They classically conditioned a baby to have a fear of white rats, and this fear was later generalised.

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Classical Conditioning STRENGTH- Olson and Fazio (2001)

Paired neutral pictures with words either being 'excellent' or 'terrible'. Then shown pictures again + pics paired w/ negative words = negative reaction. Same with positive.

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Classical Conditioning STRENGTH- Kippin (2000)

Conditioned rats to ejaculate to the smell of almonds + lemons. Before conditioning, rats didn't care if they mated with lemon/almond-smelling females. After conditioning, mated with corresponding smell.

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Classical Conditioning STRENGTH- Pavlov (1927)

Pavlov paired the arrival of food with the ticking of a metronome.

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Classical Conditioning WEAKNESS of incompleteness

Classical conditioning doesn't explain how we learn entirely new behaviours, but simply how we learn to display existing behaviours in response to different situations.

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Classical Conditioning WEAKNESS of reductionism

Studies that work with classical conditioning can be destructively reductionist. They reduce behaviour into different parts that may not be representative of real life.

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Classical Conditioning WEAKNESS of animal studies

Many studies that investigate Classical Conditioning involve animals. Like Kippin, some involve rats, which have smaller prefrontal cortex's to humans. Therefore, behaviour may not be generalisable from animals (rats) to humans.

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Classical Conditioning WEAKNESS-

Some studies found that the CR can often be weaker than the UCR (for example, electric shock = faster heartbeat. If something is paired for the shock, the heartbeat will be raised but lower than the actual shock. CC doesn't predict this).

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Paired neutral pictures with words either being 'excellent' or 'terrible'. Then shown pictures again + pics paired w/ negative words = negative reaction. Same with positive.

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Classical Conditioning STRENGTH- Olson and Fazio (2001)

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Pavlov paired the arrival of food with the ticking of a metronome.

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Classical conditioning doesn't explain how we learn entirely new behaviours, but simply how we learn to display existing behaviours in response to different situations.

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