PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Eugenics, Edward Thorndike, Operant Conditioning Chamber
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S-r psychology: stimulus-response, starting place (ucs and ucrs) What is unlearned is the reaction or response to the stimuli. Mapping current things you do on new stimuli: operant. Explains how you create brand new behaviours. Eugenics: according to darwin, people have been using artificial breeding or selection, fast males meeting with fast females makes fast children. Who is worthy of breeding: adolf hitler"s guiding principle. Blond hair blue eyes: people started becoming anti-eugenics. They believed nature matters: started the discussion of nature vs nurture. Operant conditioning: 1930-40s, during the period, everyone was excited about genetics, edward thorndike. Cat could manipulate levers to open different parts of the puzzle box. Seeing how long the cat took to find its way out of the puzzle box. Over time, the timing gets better in the puzzle box. If the cat did something with a positive effect, the cat is more likely to do it again in that same spot: b. f. skinner.
