Unconditional stimulus is the example of the dogs food, unconditional response is the dog salivating. ... This study was about an infant who at plain site had no fear to fury white animals. ... When put together with the white fury animal for several trails little Albert was conditioned to automatically at plain site be afraid of white fury animals. ... Another component of operant conditioning is discriminative stimulus the specific stimulus in the presences of which a particular operant is more likely to be reinforced. For example when someone rings the doorbell is a discriminative stimulu...

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The stimulus that is introduced in this example (hot dog) is called the unconditioned stimulus and the behavior that the dog is performing (salivation) is called the unconditioned response. ... For example, if a bell is rung, the dog does not salivate. ... Given the example, the conditioned response is salivation. ... Given Little Albert's experiment, if Watson were to present the white rat enough times without the loud noise, Albert's fear of the rat would go away and his reaction to the animal would be the same as it was before the unconditioned stimulus was introduced (amicable). ...

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Thorndike, the most important researcher in animal psychology, conducted an experiment that serves as a good example of the relationship between animal psychology and behaviorism. His puzzle box was designed to study animal learning as well as animal behaviors. ... Behaviorists agreed with the belief of this animal psychologist. ... Second, both human and animal behavior would be investigated. Third, mentalistic ideas would be discarded and replaced with the behavioristic concepts of stimulus and response. ...

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