CAS PS 101 Midterm: PS101 Exam 1 STUDY GUIDE

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Tracy Dunne

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Knowledge is gained empirically (through the senses, objective data) Psychology should study only observable responses, not unobservable (cid:498)mental(cid:499) processes. Study learning and how we learn, have to put the blinders on when we study behaviorism. Learning is the key to understanding how experience models behavior. At birth the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) upon which experience is written. Environment shapes behavior through association of events with one another. Classical conditioning-learning based on association between events environment. Involuntary: behaviors followed by satisfying consequences become more likely to recur, behaviors followed by unsatisfying consequences become less likely to recur. One stimulus serves as a signal heads up about what may be around the corner in your. (cid:883)9(cid:883)(cid:885) (cid:498)psychology as a behaviorist views )t(cid:499) (cid:498)no account of what is happening inside the human body, no matter how complete, will explain the origins of human behavior(cid:499) Only subject matter in psychology was observable behavior. Classically conditioned emotion (baby, gong and rat)