PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Behaviorism, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Habituation

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After darwin creating the concept of survival of the fittest, lead to the discovery of genetics. It was thought that people were designed to be this person since birth because of genetics. Psychologist believe that you will change based on the functions you experience in life. Scientists wanted to measure things objectively and not subjectively. Stimulus: something you can see and directly measure. How did our behaviours get as complicated as they are in respect to stimuli. Behaviourist believe: behaviour complexity emerges as a function of learning. There are pre-existing links between stimuli and responses that are genetic and modified. For example babies are learned to root and suck (breast feeding) Anything that we feel that is a sense of danger, our parasympathetic nervous system kicks in. (pre-existing) We did not have to learn the link/connection. For example the digestive system (food-unconditional stimulus, digestive response-unconditioned response)

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