PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edward C. Tolman, Sensory Neuron, Latent Learning
2 Apr 2016
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Instinctual: genetically programmed behaviors that occurs when circumstances are appropriate and that require no learning. Learned: behaviors adapted to the environment, relatively flexible and open to modifications (cid:1) (cid:1) William james: instincts are motivators of behavior; impulses from within an organism that lead to the initiation of action and behavior (modesty, jealousy) Ethnology (lorenz, tinbergen: instincts are behaviors: Exist because they have/have had survival value. Vary in terms of sensitivity to environment: appetitive: searching behaviors that are flexible, adapted to the environment, and subject to modification through learning, consummatory: fixed patterns of responding to specific stimuli. These behaviors are rigid, insensitive to the environment, highly stereotyped and independent from learning (fixed action patterns) Homeostasis: the tendency of an organism to maintain an internal equilibrium . The reduction of a drive is satisfying: incentive motivation: The value of k is learned incentive learning (tony. The value of k is relative incentive relativity (l. p. Challenges: optimal level of motivation: yerkes-dodson law:
