PSYC 2044 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Natural Selection, Tabula Rasa, Learning
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Activity of any organism either internal or external. Taking in experiences and creating relatively permanent behavior change. Teach organism to see stimulus and pair it with a different stimulus. Behaviors that lead to positive effects are more likely to be repeated. Behaviors that lead to negative effects are less likely to be repeated. Bf skinner, interested in changing someone"s behavior. The consequence of the behavior either increase or decrease the likelihood. Person is born w/ predetermined skills and knowledge. Plato believes everything we know is already there at birth and learning is just inner reflection that exposes what we already know. Most things we know are learned after birth. 4 laws of association began modern learning. Law of similarity, law of contrast, law of contiguity, law of frequency. The way to study mind is to break it down to simplest parts and then combine them to get to higher learning understanding.
