EAB 3764 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Firmament, Little Albert Experiment, Intellectual Disability
9 Jan 2017
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Two main questions(key features): why do people behave the way they do? (3 approaches) Cognitions and emotions-these are behaviors (most popular with psych) Experience-interaction with environment: how do we change behavior, change personality-but this is just a construct, changes attitude-does this really change behavior, exposes people to known experiences and see what happens. Determinants of behavior can best be identified by studying its observable features: covert behaviors vs. Overt(observable: emphasis on overt-it is measurable and reliable- this is scientific, assume the overt is similar to covert bc covert can"t be measured scientifically. Behavior is determined, in large part, by observable features of the environment: feelings correlate not cause. The study of basic learning processes involving interactions between observable features of behavior and the environment. Change environment and see what behavior changes. Applications of learning principles to solve problems of social importance. An introduction to the study of experimental medicine, bernard (1865, trans.
