PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Behaviorism, Classical Conditioning, Forgetting Curve
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Skinner - beyond freedom and dignity - free will vs. determinism. Human as behaviourist/mechanistic nature/system -> wrong track to trust people to make good decisions by themselves - need institutions etc. to teach morals (elements of social construction) Skinner - pry open systems of control as opposed to holding onto ideology of freedom. Into system of control without thinking about it. What is important = what is presented to neural biology. What we give to emotional system -> how to react to it (positive/negative) - empowers message. John watson - classical conditioning -> wide variety of phenomena (i. e. emotions) Studied babies - 3 us-ur emotional relationships (feel emotions/responses without being taught) Little albert - association -> potential triggers in the future (insights to who he is -personality theories) Albert = generalization of fear response -> fear responses. Behaviourist framework w/ associations of past = powerful explanatory framework - makes sense of human nature.
