PSYB20H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6
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Behaviourist approach interested in how we learn how behaviour changes in response to experience. Classically conditioned learning becomes extinct, or fades, if it is not reinforced by repeated association. Operant conditioning the learner operates, or acts, on the environment. The infant learns to make a certain response to an environmental stimulus (e. g. , babbling at the sight of parents) in order to produce a particular effect (e. g. , smiles). Can involve either reinforcements, which increase behaviours, or punishments, which decrease behaviours. Can also be positive (adding a stimulus to the environment) or negative (removing a stimulus from the environment). Measures quantitative differences in abilities that make up intelligences by using tests that indicate or predict these abilities. Most professionals agree that intelligent behaviour is goal-oriented and adaptive. Intelligence enables people to acquire, remember, and use knowledge, to understand concepts and relationships, and to solve everyday problems.
