Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Alvin Segal

Document Summary

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the psychodynamic approach to personality. Behavioral perspectives on personality: describe pavlov " s classical conditioning and its contribution to understanding personality. Behaviorism a theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study observable behavior. Behavioral theorists view personality : as a collection of response tendencies that are tied to various stimulus situations. They focus on personality development in same way they explain everything else. Specifically, how children"s response tendencies are shaped by classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning. Pavlov"s classical conditioning : a type of learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Classical conditioning may explain how people acquire particular emotional responses such as anxiety or phobias. Conditioned reflex : classically conditioned responses are viewed as reflexes as most of them are involuntary. Unconditioned stimulus : evoke an unconditioned response without previous conditioning.