NEW232Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Classical Conditioning, Goal Setting, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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He declared it to be a completely objective study. Avoids concepts of consciousness, mind, awareness; science of behavior, not of the mind. Skinner(cid:495)s work was the basis of behavior therapy, behavior analysis, cbt. Re-shaped w in the wake of psychoanalysis(cid:495) failure. Learning process that occurs when 2 stimuli are repeatedly paired together. First pair: us and ur: unconditioned stimulus [us]- a stimulus which naturally elicits a reflexive, natural unconditioned response [ur] Cs is repeatedly paired with the us, then it will act like the us and elicit the cr (like ur: conditional response [cr]- natural response to a reflex [us], but now elicited by the. Cs alone, without requiring the presence of the us at all. E. g. , thought/ image etc of someone you know can elicit a smile. Describes the role of environmental reinforcement/punishment in the shaping of specific behaviors (i. e. called operants); can only strengthen or weaken behaviors which already exist.
