PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Descriptive Statistics, Spurious Relationship, Standard Deviation
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Tip of the iceberg conscious vs unconscious. Conflict between conscious and unconscious: ego, id, superego. Evaluation: theory does not hold but therapies with augmentation/revision are still used. Examined processes by which experience influences behaviour. Discovered laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms. Classical pavlov: stimulus response pairings. Operant skinner: reinforcers and punishment, thorndike"s law of effect, assumes behaviours are voluntary and we have to do a behaviour and reinforcers/punishers will determine if it occurs more or less frequently, reinforcers increase; punishers decrease. Social learning: bandura and the bobo dolls, we can learn behaviours through observation. Humans are unique when given the right support. Maslow hierarchy said we must first obtain basic needs before we can move onto more complex needs, and finally self-actualization. Developing field due to advances in technology. Applied conducted specifically for the purpose of solving practical problems and improve people"s quality of life: math intervention, coping with disabilities.
