PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Behaviorism, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
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Early 1900s a resistance to the dominant paradigms in psychology of the day: introspection & freudian psychoanalysis. Psychologists started to try to make psychology more scientific, experimental. They began to focus only on observable aspects of human experience focus on behaviour. Unfortunately, he also invented a very difficult-to- remember language to describe his theory of conditioning classical conditioning". Us = the stimulus that the animal will naturally respond to (e. g. , meat powder) Cs = the new, neutral stimulus that is paired with the us (e. g. , ding! ) Cr = the response (e. g. , salivating; usually not quite as powerful) A neutral stimulus can become a conditioned stimulus by being paired with an. Learning to like: where do sentimental feelings come from, objects have been associated in the past with positive feelings. Pavlov influenced an american psychologist, who ended up leaving quite a legacy. 1913 begins to publish his perspective on behaviourism through psych review:
