PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Genetic Predisposition, Biopsychosocial Model, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Christopher Boddy

Document Summary

3 issues in development, nature vs nurture. Diathesis stress-model: genetic predisposition, continuity vs discontinuity. Do traits that occur as a child stay with one throughout life or do people change: universal vs. context-specific, the biopsychosocial framework, sociocultural. Helix represents life; life is not a smooth line. There are diff experiences and we respond diff to each event. Or it could be the same event but at different times of life: the way we respond depends when this event occurs. Negative: removing something unpleasant to increase a behaviour: ex. Headache; take a pill; the headache is gone. In the future, this response will be more likely. Positive reinforcement: to add something pleasant: punishment: to decrease the likelihood of a behaviour in the future. Interacts with the world through sensation and movement: preoperational. Develops the ability to use symbols to represent objects.