PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Little Albert Experiment, Behaviorism
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Definition: understanding new information; the process of acquiring new information and behavior/behavioral patterns. People are not like salmon; we are not only preprogrammed with genes that tell us what to do, but the environment changes us too. John b. watson and his extreme quote in favor of nurture all about the environment. Psychological doctrine concerned with laws of behavior. The source of personality and behavior are external, not internal. Thorndike"s law of effect a person"s history of environment interactions controls his or her behavior. Definition: learning by connecting events that occur in sequence. Produces habits in us (textbook example: workout before dinner over time became a habit) Habit doing something reflexively; things paired together. Habit = behavior part and prediction = mental part. The process of learning associations is called conditioning. One way that we learn to behave the way we do. Definition: neutral event begins to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another event.
