PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Reinforcement, Latent Learning, Behaviorism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Pavlov believed you don"t need to pay attention to cognitive processes for classical conditioning: don"t need to know what the dog anticipates/feels. Research states that cognitive processes are important; animals are assessing and evaluating information: how reliable, how much predictive power? if these factors increase, learning is more likely. Pavlov believed as long as you follow rules of classical conditioning, you can condition anything. Nature places limits on this ex) assuming something you consumed causes nausea rather than a sensory cue. Able to take complex processes like learning and study them objectively. Great influence on john watson; major player in behaviourism. Before: psychology was the study of consciousness: behaviourists were against studying things that can"t be observed, believed that introspection, observing one"s own thought processes, was highly subjective, psychology should study observable behaviour via an objective method. Goal of psychology is to predict and control behaviours; watson used pavlov"s methodology for this. Behaviourism dominated psychology for more than 50 years.