PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Tantrum, Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Niusha Ghazban

Document Summary

The learning/behaviorist perspective: status of the learning perspective, classical conditioning. Applications to drug addiction and phobias: operant conditioning. Application to behavior modification techniques: observable behavior is the focus, as opposed to internal ( mind ) processes that we can"t see. Next level of analysis up from the anatomy and physiology of the biological perspective (ch. 3), and the mostly automatic functioning of perception (ch. Transition to higher order cognitive processes like memory, thinking, problem solving and decision making in the final section of our course (ch. Behaviorism was a radical, positive departure from the dominant perspective in psychology around. Learning perspective: often referred to as the learning perspective, but not in the everyday sense of learning in school . The focus is on the effect of all prior experience on current behavior (factors can include environment parents, friends, etc. ) Ex: a child"s misbehavior is seen as the result of previous experience.