PSY352H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: George Romanes, Margaret Floy Washburn, Operant Conditioning
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Animals and their behaviour are an integral part of human society. Recognizing and defining behaviour: animal behaviour: any internally coordinated, externally visible pattern of activity that responds to changing external and internal conditions. Internally coordinated- internal information processing: externally visible activity- patterns that we can observe and measure, eg. We can observe an animal"s behavioural response to changing conditions. ** a complete analysis requires all 4 questions to be answered ** Increased ability to open the box: time curve, margaret washburn, theory of consciousness, research on a wide variety of taxa and helped to train a generation of comparative psychologists. Behaviourism: field of comparative psychology that studies behaviour independently of an animal"s mental states, focus on what they can observe (specific stimuli that evoke a response) (consciousness) Stimulus-response paradigm: both stimuli and responses can be externa;/internal. John watson- observational learning: learning though observing behaviour and observing results.
