PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neoteny, Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning Chamber
11 Nov 2014
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Central position of behavioural perspectives on personality, general characteristics of behavioural theories, classical conditioning, overview of principles, temporal continuity and repetition, stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination, classical conditioning explanations of personal likes/dislikes and. Attitudes (razran: operant conditioning, thorndike"s law of effect, watson"s position, skinner as a personality theorist, positive vs. They look at responses people make on questionnaires which are then taken and interpreted as signs to the underlying trait: learning psychologists use behaviour as samples of something else (more general). Perspective: when asking a behaviourist why you forget someone;s name is because the cues in the environment are not there for you to remember. Three weeks later, everyone was put in the same neutral condition and found that the people who were in free lunch condition previously still scored higher: pavlov: reflexes can be associated with a new condition. He questioned the role of theory in psychology.
