PSY E202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Albert Bandura, Social Learning Theory, Systematic Desensitization
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John b. watson: believes that children"s development is determined by their social environment, learning through conditioning is the primary mechanism of development, psychologists should only study that which they could observe, not the mind. Study things such as behavior and patterns. Classical conditioning: pavlov and the dogs. Conditioned stimulus and response pair with something unconditioned and they become used to that stimulus: little albert. How to get the child to stop fearing something: systematic desensitization. A form of therapy based on classical conditioning, in which positive responses are gradually conditioned to stimuli that initially elicited a highly negative response. Believed we repeat behaviors that lead to favorable outcomes (reinforcement) and suppress those that result in unfavorable outcomes (punishment) Every act of life is due to this pattern of reinforcement. Discover that attention can be a powerful reinforcer. Discovered that intermittent reinforcement makes behaviors last longer without reinforcement (resistant to extinction: randomly give a reward for no reason.
