PSYC 1023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Applied Behavior Analysis, Classical Conditioning, Radical Behaviorism
12 Jun 2017
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Behavior: any activity of an organism that can be observed or measured/documented, could be internal or external. May or may not be visible for other peoplet: thoughts vs. action. Learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from an experience. Had an experience and change in behavior learning. Classical conditioning: behavior = reflexive or involuntary. Operant conditioning* for unit 2: behavior = goal directed or voluntary, eg. N: learning is the process of uncovering things that already exist plato. Rene descartes: i think therefore i am: behaviors are both involuntary reflexes and free will, nonhuman animal behavior is entirely reflexive. John locke tabula rasa: all subjective views no formal experiments ever conducted, product are your experiences, vast majority are shaped by environment but there are reflexive parts. Edward titchener proposed structuralism: method: introspection. Believed in learning is important to study.
