PSY230H5 Lecture Notes - Ivan Pavlov, Plastic Model, Radical Environmentalism
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Gonna talk about process theories rather than structural theories. There have been structural models such as id ego superego / and then there"s stages of development presented by freud. To the degree ppl are different it is because of learning and environmental exposure, and experiences we have had as we developed, so if ppl act diff, its cuz they have been exposed to different sets of consequences. Individual differences as the result of learning and environmental experiences: behaviour therefore changes in response to external and situational contingencies. If we take a radical behaviorist aka radical environmentalist perspective : other than physiological things derived from genetic code, we have individual difference exclusively based on differences in life experience. (environment shapes us) Rmeber :plaster model saying ppl are fixed, plastic model says we are malleable. Radical behaviorist would be a radically plastic model. Watson"s theory can be called a radical behaviorist theory.
