Behavioralists believe laws of conditioning exist'

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• Behavioralists believe laws of conditioning
  exist.
• Animal studies human studies
• General laws of learning apply to all.

New information weakens theory we are not blank
slates when it comes to learning.
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Biological constraints

• Breeland and Breeland (1966) Instinctive Drift
• Dancing chickens
• Baseball playing chickens
• Rooting pigs

• Garcia and Koelling (1966) Belongingness
• External stimuli yield external consequences
• Internal stimuli yield internal consequences
• Ex Pidgeons and bright/noisy water or tasty
  water.

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Belongingness another way to say
Preparedness Seligman (1970) Prepared Unprepare
d Contraprepared

• Examples of Preparedness in Animals
• Critical periods for imprinting Geese/Ducks
• Examples of Preparedness in Humans
• Language development

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Cognitive Processes

• Our ability to think nullifies contiguity theory.
• Examples
• Taste Aversions learned even after a long
  interval between stimulus and nausea.
• Simeoultaneous conditioning should be best in
  fact least effective
• Short delay most effectivebut counter no
  contiguity

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• Rescorla (1968) Contiguity Experiment
• Findings the greater the chance subject can
  predict an event the more easily conditioning
  occurs.

• Kamin (1969) Blocking
• Research shows ability to condition 2 NS to a
  single UCS when both NS are presented together.
• Findings If on NS has already been conditioning
  to the UCS then it is impossible to condition the
  second NS to the that UCS