PSYC 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Contiguity, Dependent And Independent Variables, Lightning
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In behavioral psych, it"s the change in environment. Cause: dependent variable: the variable we measure. Functional relationship: there"s some sort of cause and effect. Change in independent variable induces a change in the dependent: example. Seeing how high plants grow with differing amounts of soil. Dependent: height: stimulus and response, stimulus: something that happens in the environment that could potentially affect behavior; a cue, response: a particular instance of a behavior that would likely happen in response in a stimulus. Example: do well on midterm and you smile. Response: smiling: types of behavior, overt: directly observed. Behaviorists prefer this: covert: something that happens internally. Thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations: types of stimuli, aversive: something that an organism will avoid. Like hot temperatures, shock, etc: appetite: something that an organism will seek this out because it wants/desires it, deprivation: a prolonged absence of something.
