Little Albert Chapter 6 Summary

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Chapter 6 Extra Credit
Habituation is when someone ignores something around them because they know what it is and sensitization is when someone hears something and quickly stops what they are doing to know what the sound is.
Pavlov paired a ringer with food to give to the dog, when the dog heard the ringer he knew that he was going to receive food.
Little Albert in an experiment was shown a rat but when the rat was paired up with a big noise little albert got scared of the rat. The unconditioned stimulus is petting the rat, the neutral is the rat and the conditioned stimuli is little albert being scared of the rat. The unconditioned response is trying to pull away from the rat, the conditioned response is not being afraid

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