PSYC 2300H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Learning, Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning
15 Feb 2018
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What is a paradigm? i. e. , perspective, mindset, worldview, schema ideas about etiology/causes of mental disorders set of unquestioned assumptions guides explanations, research, and treatment. Clinical case: sarah vander schaff obsessive-compulsive disorder nearly ruined her life. Anxiety, anxious feelings and emotions, worries, intrusive thoughts, obsessive behaviours, compulsiveness, repeated patterns of checking her moles, history of catastrophizing situations, panic attacks. Surge of automatic arousal: facilitates survival (fight-or-flight) Sustained physiological tension: helps with planning and preparation, facilitates performance (if moderate) Same genuine fear/anxiety response but: excessive and irrational: out of proportion to actual danger/threat, persistent: 6+ months, disabling: impairs daily functioning. Premise/assumption: abnormal behaviour is acquired via learning. Learn problem behaviours: fail to learn adaptive behaviours, focus on observable behaviours, key causal role of the environment. Joh(cid:374) b. watso(cid:374)"s (cid:395)uote (cid:862)gi(cid:448)e (cid:373)e a doze(cid:374) health(cid:455) i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts, (cid:449)ell-formed, and my own specified (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld to (cid:863) Learning mechanisms: conditioning (associative learning, classical, operant, modeling (observational learning) Applies to involuntary responses: e. g. , reflexes, emotions.
