01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Christmas Music, Classical Conditioning, Bee Sting
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The definition of learning is: research, or teaching, which causes a permanent and measurable change in behavior. A process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values, through experience in. How we respond to the environment (classical conditioning) How we act in the environment (operant conditioning) How we observe the environment (observational learning) In the early 1900s, the structuralists used introspection, which involved describing their. Behaviorists insisted that the field of psychology only dealt with observation and own experiences in order to study their thoughts and ideas. measurable events rather than the mind and subconscious. A belief that the universe functions on a basis of cause and effect. Led people to believe that behavior was an effect determined by identifiable causes and can be predicted if these causes could be pinpointed. If there is enough information on an individual such as his experiences, influences, and genetics, then it is possible to predict how they will behave.
