PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Conditioning, Implicit Learning, Behaviorism
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Acquiring knowledge of skills through experience or instruction. Psychology is the science of behavior- not of thoughts, feelings, or sensations. Raise the status of psychology to a real science. Same laws (basic principles of learning) apply evenly to all organisms and all content. What a person learns depends almost entirely on the environment (nurture) Interact with the world with your senses; you can make copies with those senses and make associations with them. Behaviorism developed because psychologies didn"t like introspection (asking people to report on their own mental processes) Two strings hang from the ceiling and participants need to tie them together. "it dawned on me", "it was the only thing left", "i just realized the cord would swing" The participants had no idea that it was maier casually swinging the rope that lead them to solving the solution. Upon asked, they identified the wrong cue that signaled them to solve the problem.
