PSY BEH 102C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory, Reticular Formation
1 Apr 2017
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Reinforcement: to increase the likelihood of a behavior. Learning traditions influenced the development of behavior therapy. Behavior therapy tends to be time-limited and direct. Strong evidence supporting the efficacy of behavior therapies. Behavior therapy: creating new associations by practicing new behavioral habits, and/or reinforcing useful behaviors with positive consequences. Bf skinner is known for introducing the concept of operant conditioning, the belief that behavior can influence and change the environment: classical conditioning: association by relationships, operant: acting in our environment and you get a response. Must consider reciprocal relations among: biological, psychological, social, and experiential factors. Defining abnormal behavior: complex, multifaceted, involved. Explain behavior in terms of a single cause. Tend to ignore information from other areas. Example: explaining obsessive-compulsive disorder as the result of family history alone. Multi-dimensional models: interdisciplinary, integrative, system of influences that cause and maintain suffering, draw upon information from several sources, abnormal behavior results from multiple influences. Nature of genes: dna, dominant vs recessive.
