PSY 3303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Classical Conditioning, Joseph Wolpe, Systematic Desensitization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3303
• Professor: Dave Miranda

Document Summary

Determinism is the belief that an event is caused by, or determined by, some prior event, with the cause being something that can be understood according to basic laws of science. When applied to questions of human behaviour, determinism is the belief that people"s behaviour is caused in a lawful scientific manner. Determinism stands in opposition to a different belief, namely the belief in free will . Behaviorism"s view of the science of personality: the first assumption is that behaviour must be explained in terms of the causal influence of the environment on the person, behaviorism, in contract, is about what"s in the environment. Environemtnal determinism and its implications for the concenpt of. Pavlov"s theory of classical conditioning: around the beginning of the 20th century, pavlov was involved in the study of gastric secretions in dogs. Principles of classical conditioning: classical conditioning is a process in which a stimulus that initially is neutral eventually elicits a strong response.