PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Long-Term Potentiation, Learning, Operant Conditioning
20 Sep 2016
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A: cues signal the us, because cues signalling the compensatory response are absent. Perspectives change the focus of research questions and answers we seek. Your perception of the world is guided by prior experience, biases and heuristics. You only have access to limit subset of the mind (go back to slide) Famous horse, behaviourist answered that the horse responded to cues unintentionally given by the audience. But if a different type of scientist or psychologist may research different questions. Behaviourists have a lot to say about how drugs affect the body, concerned with learning and relatively change in behaviour due to experience in the world, we bring our own experiences and shapes our learning. Learning: enduring change in behaviour due to experience. E. g. deer lives in forest where hunters often try to kill it, if it learns its experience by avoiding humans with sticks, the deer will have an advantage and avoid its predators.
