PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Amygdala, Gallium, Slot Machine
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Introspection process of thinking about one"s own thoughts and feelings, then talking about them; makes thoughts public and available for others to study (cid:0) not reliable. Thus psychologists study observable actions: behaviours that people/animals display. Skinner thought he could change animal"s behaviour by providing incentives for performing specific acts. How did the behavioural study of learning develop. Learning when animals benefit from experience so that their behaviour is better adapted to the environment, crucial. Essence of learning: understanding how events are related. Conditioning environmental stimuli and behavioural responses become connected. Classical conditioning (pavlovian conditioning) learn that two types of events go together. Operant conditioning (instrumental conditioning) learn that a behaviour leads to a particular outcome. According to watson (founder of behaviourism), observable behaviour was the only valid indicator of psychological activity. Watson believed animals and humans were born with potential to learn anything.
