PSYC 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tabula Rasa, Fitness Landscape, Radical Behaviorism
28 Sep 2016
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Proximal (*systematic processes of person in environment) vs. distal perspectives (evolved over time, historically related) Personality; an adaptive landscape containing fundamental traits that underlie behavioral diversity. What makes a person go/grow: mate selection/sexual selection, emotions, desires etc. determined by natural selection. Testable: wilson"s 3 great mythologies: marxism, religion, evolution, mythology=story that can"t be proved. Useful: buss believes it allows for individuality to be explained by evolution. X axis: almost entirely on the side of the other (world is in control) Y axis: bottom-up in uence, small things build into big. Behavioral psychologists use animals as models of conditioning and learning. Personality to a behaviorist: consistent behaving resulting from conditioning history interacting with situational stimuli. Situational zone because bridge between bottom-up chemical compositionists, and top-down humanists. Watson said behavior is always a reaction to a stimulus; stimulus + response is what shapes you.
