PS261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviorism
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Not a good method to use across species bc obvi wouldn"t work with a rat associative learning very important: it"s the general process that underlies learning in animals, based on associating 2 things together; believing theyre related, events that happen together are related, two things close together in time and space = continuity, we assume those things are related, this can lead to problems: just bc two things happen at the same time (ex. Ice cream and crime both increase in the summer), doesn"t mean theyre related: error is called post hoc ergo propter hoc, aka after thing therefore caused by thing (just because something happened after something else, we assume it happened because of that something else, when something happens after another thing it"s contingent, all animals are learning by al, therefore if we find differences the animals that learn better must be forming more associations / forming them faster = this is what general process theory says.
