PSYC-3720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operant Conditioning, Autism Spectrum, Social Anxiety Disorder
9 Sep 2019
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Behaviour: anything a person/organism says or does. Technically any muscular, glandular, or electrical activity of an organism. Careful to mot mix up behaviour with products of behaviour (eg getting an a on an exam, behaviour is studying, product is the a) Focusing more so on operant rather than classical conditioning. 2 kinds of behaviour we talk about: Can be referred to as cognitive behaviours (ie thinking) Stimulus: anything that impinges on the person"s sense receptors that can a ect behaviour. This can include objects, events, people, animals, etc. Environment: the sum of all the stimuli currently a ecting an individual (the cars driving by, the pressure of the ground under your feet, the chair underneath you, someone typing anything that can a ect you) Behaviour can be classi ed in a variety of ways to aid in measuring it: Frequency: how often a behaviour occurs in a given period of time. Duration: how long a behaviour persists or occurs for.
