PSY 2012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Puzzle Box, Joseph Wolpe, Donald O. Hebb
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He found out that by giving an animal food for doing particular actions, he could radically the only determinants of learning. B. f. skinner groundbreaking study of animals: modern psychologists agree that learning results from an individual"s experience. Psychologists have divided learning into three main types: change the animal"s behavior. Learning is a change in behavior, resulting from experience: we learn from experience. According to john watson, observable behavior was the only valid indicator of psychological activity = this idea was the basis for behaviorism. In formulating his idea on behaviorism, watson was influenced by the seventeenth-century philosopher. John locke: an infant is a tabula rasa (blank state) born knowing nothing, the infant develops over time by acquiring all of its knowledge through sensory experiences. A stimulus could be: a sight, a smell, a sound, for example. If the sound does not result in a threat, the animal soon learns to ignore it.
