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. ... Instinctive drift refers to the fact that an animal's natural ...

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The bell is the neutral stimulus. Now that the unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, and neutral stimulus are all identified, it is time to pair the neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus. ... Then, later, the unconditioned stimulus can be withdrawn and the neutral stimulus evolves to become the conditioned stimulus. Now the conditioned stimulus or learned stimulus evokes a conditioned response, or learned response. ... 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...

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The most important antecedent of behaviorism was animal psychology. ... 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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He believed that changes in a subject's behavior result from conditioning, a learning process in which a new response becomes associated with a certain stimulus. ... Claim number one is also known as "Methodological" which claims that psychology should concern itself with the behavior or humans and animals. According to methodological behaviorism, reference to mental events (such as an animal's beliefs or desires) adds nothing to what psychology can and should understand about the sources of behavior. ... It explains how human and animal behavior in terms of response and learning his...

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