PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Learning, Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism
22 Nov 2016
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Psychology is challenged with solving ancient puzzles that impact everyone. How does the mind-body connection affect emotions. Some of the things you know to be true about psychology are wrong. Perspectives in psychology change the focus of the research questions we pursue and the type of answered we find. Your perception of the world is guided by prior experience, biases and heuristics. We only have access to a limited subset of reality. A behaviorist perspective to understand psychology"s most famous horse. The horse was being cued by the audience; 2+3, horse would stomp till audience looked for the last one and horse knows to do one more stomp. Relatively enduring change in behaviour due to experience. If dear can learn to avoid men with long sticks, it can have an advantage and successfully avoid them. Classical condition a cue that your going to get a sweet taste in your mouth (eating cookies)
