PSYC 241 Chapter Notes -Cognitive Restructuring, Pedophilia, Amygdala
20 Jan 2013
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Behaviourism an approach that focuses on observable behaviour rather than consciousness. John b. watson (1878-1958) responded to introspection by promoting a focus on behaviourism by extrapolating from psychological work on animals. Three types of learning: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, modelling. A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with another stimulus (unconditioned stimulus, Ucs) that naturally elicits a certain desired response (unconditioned response, ucr) After repeated trials, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus (cs) and evokes the same or similar response, now called the conditioned response (cr). Russian psychologist, ivan pavlov (1849-1936) studied the digestive system, dog was given meat powder to stimulate salivation. Dog began salivating when it saw it"s feeder, eventually salivated when it heard the feeder"s footsteps. As the number of paired presentations of the bell and the meat powder increases, the number of.
