aspects of classical conditioning

• what other 3 aspects are part of conditioning?

  • extinction- condition disappears
  • spontaneous recovery- could reappear after condition disappears
  • stimulus generalisation- evoke similar response after response is conditioned
• extinction?

  association can simply disappear between CS and CR when paired stimulus is separated

  • eg is Pavlov was to stop ringing bell when food was presented the association will be extinguished
• spontaneous recovery?

  after extinction association can recur for no reason. CS suddenly produces a response

  • eg traumatic experience at shopping centre but you go to another and nothing happens, extinction occurs. Unlearning will happen and fear is diminished but it may spontaneously occur again.
• stimulus generalisation?

  CS produces same behaviour in a similar situation

  • fear of dogs may generalise to toy dogs
• psychology as a science?

  Pavlov uses experimental conditions with quantitative data :).

  reductionist, behaviour is oversimplified to stimulus response links and overlooks complexity of behaviours