PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Central Serous Retinopathy, Behaviorism, Tabula Rasa
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The big picture they are formed (recall history?) learning: personal evolution contrasts quite strongly with the methods that are more popular today. The emphasis will be primarily on stimulus-response mappings, and how. This chapter focuses on the manner in which we learn to behave in certain ways given certain environmental conditions (cid:523)and how critical is that? (cid:524) . There will be very little discussion of cognitive states or processes which. Relates to chapter 1 with the idea of learning that we"re born a blank slate. And upon this blank slate experiences happen and that shapes who we are: 1940s 1950s when behaviorism ruled this was how psychology was reflect our machinery in action for examples: We come equipped with many stimulus response mappings that simply: when we put food in our mouths, digestive processes are initiated. Kicking off digestive process (ucs) to produce (ucr)
