[PSYC 281] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (28 pages long)
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281 chapter 1: introduction to principles of behaviour: what is behaviour, anything a person or other animal does that can be measured (skinner, 1938) Going to get milk from the fridge. Not putting your hand on a hot stove. Traumatic car accident develops a fear of cars: remembers the smell of burning when in a new car, etc. Directly observable: can measuring breathing rate, heart rate, etc. A relati(cid:448)el(cid:455) per(cid:373)a(cid:374)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge : behaviour is: It(cid:859)s all a(cid:271)out sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)al: genetics are fixed at birth, changing (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour after (cid:271)irth due to o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e is (cid:449)here lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:373)es in. By being able to learn rapidly, you will be able to survive & reproduce, so natural selection can actually occur. Organisms that can learn to outcompete others. If you can learn and someone else cannot, they are most likely to die off: adaptive trait, how is learning studied, experimentation. Allows for control of the environmental stimuli.
