PS271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism
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The behavioral/social learning approach: theory, applicaion, and assessment: chapter 13. Overt behaviour- that which can be observed, predicted, and controlled by scienists. Principles that help explain human behaviour: classical condiioning, operant condiioning. Radical behaviourism- people do not know the reason for their behaviour. Developed by b. f. skinner: challenged the existence of inner causes of one"s behaviour, free will and determinism. Begins wit an exising simulus- response (s-r) associaion: uncondiioned simulus (us) evokes uncondiioned response (ur, uncondiioned simulus paired with a condiioned simulus (cs) evokes condiioned response (cr) Second-order condiioning- building one condiioned s-r associated on another: when girl is driving across the bridge, her dad would play a certain song. Persistence of new s-r associaion requires occasional pairing or reinforcement of uncondiioned and condiioned simuli: spontaneous recover. The salv example when at night ime the salv is back up again. Exincion- gradual disappearance of the condiioned s-r associaion.
