PSC 1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Memory, Psychology, Visual System
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Looking inward at own thought processes: first psych lab: wilhelm wundt in 1879, germany. Famous for trying to observe own thoughts in objective manner. Thought cats would be smart enough to learn by observation: cat only learned by being rewarded for pressing lever, if a behavior is followed by something positive, it will be strengthened. If it is followed by something negative, it will be weakened; happens less: conditioning: repeated experience with reward/punishment conditions behavior, a person"s behavior can be explained by reward/punishment provided by environment. If x causes y, the presence of y doesn"t imply the presence of x. The fact that x causes y does not mean that y can only happen if. We can explain by saying gambling is more rewarding to person a than to person b, and people tend to do rewarding things. For this to be explanation, antecedent condition must be true: we need evidence person a finds gambling more rewarding than.
