PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Dialectic, Cooperative Learning

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2H03
• Professor: Cheryl Chow

Document Summary

Starts off with experience - contact with, participation with. Can have a scary experience, with an embarrassing stimuli, that experience can trigger a fear of that situation (eg. speaking in front of an audience) When something is happening on the outside, changes the brain. You may not always have the fear of speaking in front of a large group of people. Potential change = not readily available, you may not know you have that fear until you are put back into that situation. Bubba (grandmother) psychology: an intuitive sort of folks psychology also known as implicit or na ve psychology. Left and right hemispheres have distinct and clearly separate functions. The brain does not change and no new neurons form after birth. As a rationalist developed the belief that knowledge and truth can be discovered by self reflection - plato. The empiricist, used his sense to look for truth and knowledge in the world outside of him - aristotle.