PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Environmental Factor, Twin Study, Heredity
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Human nature is a central problem of developmental psychology. Is albert afraid of the rat or the consequence of the rat"s presence: pavlov- rang bell and presented food so that eventually dogs" mouths salivated at the sound of the bell alone. Walden two- skinner"s utopia, proposed that we have no free will or soul or other nonmaterial things; behavior is determined by genes and environment enirely. Also thought behavior is highly plasic or malleable and this manipulaion is good for humanity. *operant condiioning involves self-iniiated acions, posiive reinforcement, and shaping: *main mechanisms for behaviorism are associaion and correlaion. Freud"s reality principle refers to the idea that: b. Our insincive desires are tempered by the reality imposed by our social world. Litle albert learned to associate a rat with loud noise and came to fear the presence of rats. This is an example of: classical condiioning. True/false, infants can learn through instrumental condiioning at birth: true.
