PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Social Learning Theory, Empiricism, Observational Learning
7 Dec 2018
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Learning: the process of changing your behaviour as a function of experience. So we"ve talked about that in order to understand someone, you need to understand the unseen processes going on in their minds. But behaviourists, like watson and skinner believed that the best way to understand someone is from the outside, because that is where the visible causes of behaviour are to be found. They believe introspection (understanding someone through their mind) is invalid because nobody can verify it. The environment does not only include trees and rivers of nature, but also the rewards and punishments in the physical and social world. The goal of behaviourism is functional analysis that maps out exactly how behaviour is a function of the environmental situation. Behaviourism identifies three kinds of learning: habituation, classical (respondent) conditioning, operant conditioning: habituation, is the diminishing of a physiological or emotional response to a frequently repeated stimulus-as a direct result of experience, for ex.
