PS264 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Big Five Personality Traits, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Autonomic Nervous System
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Instincts: thomas aquinas, biology, behaviour can be mechanical, freud tension, drives, learning theory, watson, hull. 3 innate emotional reaction: fear, rage, love. Group of instincts with own source of energy. Libido: draw all energy from, energy with one instinct increases become source of, needs. Activation of drive leads to random behaviour, accidently performing a response that reduces drive. After repeated reproduction a habit is formed. Not necessary for a drive to be reduced for learning to occur. Behaviour is under the control of external rewards: skinner, bandura. Acquire new behaviour by observation and modeling needs: the energy, direction and persistence of behaviour are due to existence of, maslow"s hierarchy for self actualization, strengthened through rewards, five factor model. Openness to experience: food preferences, b. Unlearned preferences: sweet and fatty, also salty, l, c. What is good for our health: factor analytic theory, five factor model, murray and maslow, people characterized by their needs, different strengths of different needs, ocean, openness.
