Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Applied Behavior Analysis, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Wet Nurse

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: Catharine Hondzel

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Chapter 6: behaviorist and learning aspects of personality. Personality development is shaped by genetic potential and learning: behavioral theories focus on learning through conditioning. Psychodynamic behaviour theory was developed by john dollard and neal miller in the late 1940s to integrate: The fundamental ideas of freudian psychodynamic theory. The concepts, language, and methods of experimental laboratory research on behaviour and learning. In-between psychodynamic theory and behaviourism: liked freud"s theory of the unconscious, want to measure make freud"s theory scientific knew his techniques were lacking (not replicable) loosey-goosey , dollard and miller took this into the lab. For freud, neurotic conflict involves a clash between id impulses seeking expression and internalized inhibitions that restrain the impulses. Primary needs of learning: we are born with innate (primary needs, we learn how to fill these needs. When you cry as a baby you get fed. Four important factors in the learning process: drive, cue, response, reinforcement, drives: drives.