Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Aversion Therapy, Exposure Therapy

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The role of experience: learning, learning is the process of experience producing relatively enduring changes in behaviour or capabilities. Learning = knowing how": performance is different doing" something i. e. test anxiety. Unfortunately, we often must use performance to measure learning i. e. test anxiety. Learning is like adaptation but within a lifetime (as opposed to evolution across generations: learning according to behaviourism, behaviourism: Psychology should only focus on observable behaviour of the organism: focus on performance. Assumed that the organism was a tabula rasa" (blank slate) Focused on how experiences influence behaviour: assumed there are universal laws of learning i. e. all species will increase a rewarded behaviour, decrease a punished behaviour did a lot of work with animals, in controlled lab settings. Identified many of the major principles of learning: classical conditioning, operant conditioning. Classical conditioning: classical conditioning, association between two stimuli, such that one comes to produce a response that was initially produced only by the other stimulus.

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