PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism, Reinforcement
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Autonomy vs. shame/doubt (ages 1-3: ego strength: hope, ego strength: will, develop a sense of purpose, if successfully developed through this. Initiative vs. guilt (ages 3-6: law of effect: behaviors are initially emitted in random, trial and error fashion. Identity vs. role confusion (adolescence: ego strength: confidence, ego strength: loyalty. Integrity vs. despair (old age: love, care, wisdom. Classical conditioning little albert: conditioned to be afraid of white mice. We are born a tabula rasa (blank slate) Thorndike: behavior is instrumental (or goal-directed) toward obtaining rewards. Should be able to fill in all the quadrant. Something annoying or aversive is taken away because the goal is to increase the frequency of a desirable behavior. Ex: the noise in the car that goes off when you don"t have your seatbelt on: positive punishment: aka pain, negative punishment: aka loss. After some behavior is performed, something aversive is added. After the behavior is performed, something of value is removed.
