PSYC 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Contingency Management, Classical Conditioning, Radical Environmentalism
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Three interrelated principles associated with the behaviourist view on personality : personality is determined by environmental factors. Two learning processes: classical conditioning (pavlovian): learning was the reactions could be acquired by associating one stimulus with another. Requires two things: the organism must already respond to some class of stimuli reflexively. The response must occur reliably and automatically whenever the stimuli occur: the stimulus in the reflex must become associated in time and place with another stimuli. Higher-order conditioning: an event in which a former cs now acts as a us in a new instance of conditioning. Ur and cr are generally the same thing or same type of feeling. Extinction: when a cs appears over and over again without us, cr becomes progressively weaker and eventually disappear. > generalization: responding in a similar manner to somewhat different stimuli. > discrimination: responding in a different manner to different stimuli.
