PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Procedural Knowledge, Observational Learning, Nomothetic
28 Nov 2020
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Behaviorism (study of how people"s behavior is the result of the environment: people should be studied from the outside, all knowledge worth having comes from public and direct observation. It can have important consequences: ex - become numb to violence displayed in the media, the impact of major life events lessens over time, affective forecasting, our tendency to overestimate the emotional impact of those events. If someone asked you how happy you would be if you won lottery you would be over dramatic almost and say how happy you would be: we are bad at this * Insight from understanding the situation: a place for more cognitively oriented research. Ignores thinking, motivation, and emotion: primarily based on animal research, skinner and pavlov etc, some aspects of learning are more important to humans than animals though, we have. Social learning theory - self-efficacy (we can do something successfully: albert bandura, affects persistence.
