PSY-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lightning, Learning, Behaviorism
22 Sep 2015
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Instincts: behaviors that occur as a result of the organism"s genotype. Reflexes: behaviors that occur as a result of an automatic reaction to some environmental change or condition. Learning: relatively permanent change (can be altered w/ future learning) in behavior (response to an event) or mental state (knowledge, attitude) due to experience. Behaviorism: john b. watson psychology should be an objective science, and should study behavior without reference to mental processes. Watson: conditioned a phobia in little albert interested by how we"re born as blank slates . Associative learning: learning that two events occur together. : unlearned, naturally occurring response to the: conditioned response, conditioned stimulus: originally neutral stimulus that, after association w/ an learned response to a previously neutral conditioned, ivan pavlov. Discovered how the organism comes to associate two stimuli: begins w/ a reflex, a neutral stimulus is paired w/ a stimulus that evokes the reflex, neutral stimulus eventually comes to evoke the reflex.
