PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tabula Rasa, Dual Pair, B. F. Skinner
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Inborn patterns of behavior elicited by environmental stimuli. Controlled by some part of the brain occurs due to experience. Three types of learning (automatic, instinctive, permanent) Responding to environment is responding to some sort of stimuli. A relatively permanent change in behavior or the capacity for behavior that. Examined processes by which experience influences behavior. Discovered laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms. How organisms learn, what kind of processes have we learned through experience. Treated organism as tabula rasa: means everyone starts with a blank slate. Explained learning solely in terms of directly observable events: don(cid:495)t study mental states. Avoided unobservable (cid:494)mental states(cid:495: behaviorism and associative learning. Occurs when we form connections among stimuli and/or behaviors. Based on internal responses to naturally occurring stimuli. Ie our response to lemon is sour, our response to beach is nice it(cid:495)s a natural: unconditioned reflexive, something we don(cid:495)t have to learn, response is response.
