PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Radical Behaviorism, Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism
12 Jun 2018
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RADICAL VS MODERATE BEHAVIOURISM
Can measure and see it (thought, emotion, behaviour <-- Behaviourists were only interested in behaviour)
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Someone just sitting and reflecting on themselves --> negative as we now know we are biased in
how we view ourselves
Freud's unconscious
Wundt's introspection
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Behaviorist movement as reaction against psychology's focus on unmeasurable phenomena
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Personality is measurable and observable
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Completely nurtured/radical and no nature
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Behaviour is malleable
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How stimulus leads to a specific response
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Stimulus-response contingencies (classical conditioning)
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Reinforcement of punishments
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Things that you can do to increase/decrease behaviour
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Reinforcement contingencies (operant/instrumental conditioning)
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A person's personality is the sum total of all of their experience and nothing else
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Doesn't matter what happens in the mind (emotion, thought) --> it is all about the stimulus and behaviour
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In radical behaviorism, the contents of the organism are not important in explaining behaviour (B. F. Skinner)
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Moderate behaviorism, the contents of the organism are important in explaining behaviour. Moderate
Behaviourists such as social learning theorists and cognitive Behaviourists will use terms describing activities
inside the organism (habits, motives, drives, expectancies, thoughts)
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Behaviourists was so fed up with Freud after Freud era, that they came up with these theories…
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Stimulus
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Response
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Reinforcement/punishment
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3 elements in radical behaviorism
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Parcimonial theory - a simple theory but it has all that is needed
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Skinner, Watson, et al. (1920s - 30s)
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Radical behaviorisms
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CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
US - unconditional stimulus
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UR - unconditional response
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CS - conditional stimulus
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CR - conditional response
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Doctor hits hammer on knee and pair it with turning on light
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After a while, patient will jerk knee when light turns on but no hitting of hammer
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Pairing stimulus with a human/animal and keep repeating action until you don't need the stimulus to elicit
response anymore
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Radical vs Moderate Behaviorism
Classical conditioning
Operant/Instrumental conditioning
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