PSYC 050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lie Detection, Behaviorism, Reinforcement
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Deception which is to act in some way to fool others into believing or thinking or responding to something false. We use our minds to trick people- believing we are tougher, smarter, more reliable than we are. We want to create the best first impression. Certain motivations, particularly sinister ones, arebetter made to be unconscious. Skinner is well known for packaging and expanding these notions and presenting them to scientific and popular community. At core are 3 views: emphasis on learning- everything you know is based on experience. Give me a dozen healthy infants and i will guarantee to take any one at random and train them to be any kind of specialist. No group of humans could be better than another. What matters is what you learn: anti-mentalism- behaviorists were obsessed with idea of doing science. Claims about internal states, such as desires, are unscientific. They believe in general associative differences or deny difference.
