PSY 103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Radical Behaviorism, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
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What is its enduring message: psychologists should study only observable, measurable behaviors, not mental processes, methodological behaviorists vs radical behaviorists, methodological study only the events they can measure and observe to infer internal events. They deny that intervening variables such as hunger cause behavior. E. g. food deprivation hunger, hunger eating, so why not just say food deprivation eating. Internal state does not cause the event of eating: structuralists studied thoughts, ideas, and sensations by asking people to describe them. Behaviorists protested that it is useless to ask people to report their private experiences. Summary: page 226 in pdf, page 199 in textbook. Chapter 6. 2 - classical conditioning: behaviorism began to dominate experimental psychology researchers sought simple, mechanical explanations for unscientific accounts of thoughts, ideas, and other mental processes. Cs excites cs center of brain, which excites ucs center, which excites ucr center, which produces a response: later studies contradicts that idea, shock (ucs) causes rats to jump and shriek (ucr).
