PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sigmund Freud, Joseph Wolpe, Tabula Rasa

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Amanda Uliaszek

Document Summary

Behaviour: anything people do in response to internal/external events. Covert activities: private not open to view. Traits: broad/stable characteristics, not behaviors, not psychological diagnoses or outcomes of behavior: becoming more physically fit. Experience affects behavior through learning: respondent conditioning, operant conditioning, modeling. Respondent conditioning: potential conditioned stimulus (cs) gains ability to elicit a conditioned response (cr) by being associated repeatedly with an unconditioned stimulus (us) that already elicits an unconditioned response (ur) Operant conditioning: antecedents set occasion for behavior, which is affected by consequences it produces. Cognition: covert mental activity: thinking, reasoning. Expectations, beliefs, rules: covert antecedents to behavior. Applied behavior analysis: uses principles of learning (operant and respondent conditioning) to understand and change behavior. Aooky behavioural methods to change target behaviours. 4 defining chracteristics: focus on behavior: modify behavioural deficits/excesses, consider learning and environment to be main sources by which behaviours can be changed, strong scientific orientation, pragmatic and active approach.