PSYC1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Behaviorism, Interstimulus Interval, Latent Inhibition
23 Aug 2018
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During young adulthood the task is to establish enduring, committed: generativity vs stagnation (40s-60s) relationships. Middle-aged individuals attempt to pass something on to the next generation: integrity vs despair (late 60s+) People look back on their lives with a sense of satisfaction or sadness and regret. Approach emphasises that as adolescents grow less dependent on their parents and try out new values and roles, they often become rebellious and moody, shifting from compliance one movement to defiance the next. Conflict and crisis are normal in adolescence. Conflict theorists argue that adolescents need to go through a period of crisis to separate themselves psychologically from their parents and to carve out their own identity: continuity model. Adolescence is not a turbulent period; it is continuous with childhood and adulthood. Learning: learning refers to any enduring change in the way an organism responds based on its experience, a reflex is a behaviour that is elicited automatically by an environmental stimulus.
