PSYC 1010 Lecture 4: Lecture Notes 4 – OCT 6

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Lecture notes 4 oct 6, 8, 13. Behavioural perspective: try to explain behaviour by examining environment of individual and past experiences. behaviourist interested in overt (observable behaviour) He thinks that the best way to study is to observe. Learning: a relatively durable change in behaviour that occurs as a result of practice. 3 types of learning (conditioning): classical conditioning (pavlov, operant conditioning (skinner, cognitive learning acquiring mental information/ learning through language, observational learning. Classical conditioning: discovered by pavlov, a russian physiologist who tested on dogs to learn about their biology. During one of his experiments he discovered that the dog started wanting food every time he heard a bell: unconditioned response (ur, a response (r) that is automatic or reflexive. No prior learning is needed for this response to happen. It is involuntary. (ex; someone blows in your eye, your eye blinks: unconditioned stimulus (us); stimulus something that provokes a response, a stimulus (s) that precedes and elicits (triggers) on.