PSYCH 100 Study Guide - Job Performance, Absolute Threshold, Retina

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Christina Engfer

Document Summary

Behavior perspective: emphasizes conditioning of behavior by environmental events. We behave as we do because of our past conditioning of environment: classical conditioning is important: operant conditioning more important, reinforced for behavior: probability increases, environmental events control behavior by reinforcing/punishing nature. Bystander effect: probability of something happening is higher when there"s only. Behavioral learning principles of reinforcement and imitation in language acquisition. Hindsight bias: the tendency, after learning an outcome, to be overconfident to have predicted it. Experimental finding: results seem predictable: works to make research conclusions seem obvious, false knowledge: disappointment . Sociocultural context of language helps children learn pragmatic functions of language. Biological psychologists look at biological aspect of psychology: chemical and biological makeup. Psychology: the behavioral sciences: observational techniques, case studies, survey research, observational training: observing behavior, case study: study for an extended time, survey research: surveying in a non-controlled background. Correlational study: get examples, take measurements, +/- correlation.