PSY 376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Classical Conditioning, Falsifiability, Observational Learning
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10:49 am: theories, guide collection of new facts or observations, what is important, what can be predicted, how it should be studied. Issues: nature nurture, activity passivity, continuity discontinuity, universality context specific. Freud: psychoanalytical: development and dynamics of personality, people driven by motives and emotional conflict, people unaware of motives, str/weak. Shaped by earliest experiences: ambiguous, internally inconsistent, difficult to pin down and test, not falsifiable, attention to unconscious underlying human beh, attention to early experiences, important of emotion, erikso(cid:374)"s psy(cid:272)hoso(cid:272)ial theory. Fears and emotions are learned: learning theorists, dev is continuous process of beh change, context specific, diff btw people. Skinner: operant conditioning: learn by association action with positive or nene consequence. Something good taken away when beh occurs: bandura: social cognitive theory, active process of info helps dev learning, behavior, dev, observational learning. See what other people do or act: ex: bono doll experiment, latent learning.
