PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Enuresis, Operant Conditioning, Sukha

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO239
• Professor: jaybrinkley

Document Summary

How can behaviour modi cation procedures decrease drunk driving: examples of modelling prompts in everyday life, *harvard school promoted a campaign to promote the new social concept of the. What is behaviour: behaviour: a simple action that can be: Overt: objectively measurable. eg. verbal (using language), or motor (using the body). Covert: not directly observable, but doesn"t mean that they don"t have any overt behaviours, covert behaviours are inferred (coming from or concluded information from evidence and reasoning rather than from experimented statements) from overt behaviours. Independent variable: the variables that we change in an experiment. Dependent variable: the response of the changed independent variables. *psychology: the scienti c study of human behaviour and mental processing*. Psychology has three di erent aspects: theoretical: people who do a lot of thinking and try to do a lot of brainstorming. Myths and misconceptions about b-mod: using rewards is bribery .