PSYC 3404 Lecture Notes - Psychosexual Development, Behavior Modification, Classical Conditioning
4 Feb 2014
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Focus on inner person, unconscious forces act to determine personality and behavior. Behavior motivated by inner forces, memories and conflicts. Behavior is a result of continuing exposure to specific environmental factors; developmental change is quantitative. Classical conditioning (organisms learn to respond in a particular way to a neutral stimuli) Focus on observable behavior and outside environment stimuli. Voluntary response is strengthened or weakened by association with negative or positive consequence. Focus on processes that allow people to know, understand and think about the world. Human thinking is arranged in organized mental patterns that represent behavior and actions, understanding of world improves through assimilation and accommodation. Information is thought to be processed in serial, discontinued manner as it moves from stage to stage, information is stored in multiple locations throughout the brain by means of network connections. Cognitive development proceeds quickly in certain areas and more slowly in others, experience plays greater role in cognition.
