PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Edward C. Tolman, Latent Learning, Clark L. Hull

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

**for the midterm, use the textbook to expand on things learned in class! Habits become stronger as a function of how often they are followed by satisfying events. The reduction of a drive is satisfying. The reason this works is because every time you reduce a need it feels good. This theory is formulated in a mathematical way. Habit a relationship between a stimulus and response. Training is an important component of the strength of the learned response. The more training the stronger the response gets (more persistence) Drive is a general pool of energy that can activate innate and learned behaviours. There are several sources of drive but drive itself is nonspecific and nondirective. Whatever the need is it activates the drive, that energizes you to perform a general activity, new learning or directs you to a previous habit.