PS261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Latent Learning, Behaviorism
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The principles of learning and behavior (7th ed). There will be 11-in class activities and the grades of your 10 best performances will be counted. Stimulus and response: looking at behaviour as a means of responding to our environment. Learning definition (cid:862)lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g is a(cid:374) e(cid:374)duri(cid:374)g change in the mechanisms of behaviour involving stimuli and/or respo(cid:374)ses that results fro(cid:373) prior e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e with those or si(cid:373)ilar sti(cid:373)uli a(cid:374)d respo(cid:374)ses(cid:863) Latent learning: distinguishes between learning and actually performing, example: watches a show about robbing banks but does not actually participate in robbing a bank. Cartesian dualism believes in the mind and body. Involuntary (automatic behaviour) example what happens when you touch a hot stove, your hand flies up: voluntary (conscious behaviour) deals with free will and the mind, reflexes, nativism innate ideas. Idea that we are born with certain ideas: we know now that we are born with certain abilities such as grammar.
