PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clark L. Hull, Autonomic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

The supplementary readings will not be tested, but are good to know. This course tends to focus on the basic ways individuals/animals who can not speak, learn. There is always a stimulus (detectable change in the internal or external environment) Incentive (or appetitive) stimulus - a stimulus someone approaches. Aversive stimulus - something someone moves away from. Objective stimuli and social stimuli produce different responses. Behaviour/ response - there is always a response to every type of stimulus. Response: a quantifiable reaction to a stimulus. Autonomic nervous system - some reactions are of the sympathetic division, and some are of the parasympathetic division. Behaviour is a set of responses of an organism; usually in reaction to environmental stimuli. Instinctual - genetically programmed behaviours that occur when circumstances are appropriate and that require no learning. William james was known as the father of american psych. He was influenced by natural selection and focussed on instincts.