PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reinforcement
28 Dec 2015
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It is hard to provide good operational definitions of psychological measures. This is because there are so many different psychologies. Psychology is composed of multiple conflicting theories all used to explain a set of observations. Cognition how we construe our environment. Emotion/affect means many different things to different people. The underlying causes within the person of individual behaviour and experience (cloniger) The dynamic and organized set of characteristics of a person that uniquely influence his or her cognition (ryckman) Consistent behaviour patterns originating within the individual (burger) Dynamic organization of psychosocial systems that create the person"s characteristic patterns of behaviour, thoughts, and feelings (carver and. Can see from the above that one needs a high tolerance for ambiguity to navigate comfortably in the field of psychology. It is an impossible problem: how can we describe properties of a person the same was as other scientific disciplines can describe molecules, etc.
