PSYC 2600H- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600H
• Professor: Ryan Cecchetto

Document Summary

Research assignment (25%: based on seminar activities/discussion, submitted in two phases. Introduction: historical trends, the five schools of behaviourism. Chapter two: review of methods: for self-study, will reappear in seminars. Any activity of an organism that can be observed or somehow measured. The activity may be internal or external: external behaviour is something we can all see. Internal behaviour i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludes (cid:271)rai(cid:374) a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)atio(cid:374), su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e reports of ho(cid:449) you(cid:859)re feeling, cognition. The activity may or may not be visible to others. Eprese(cid:374)ts (cid:862)a relati(cid:448)ely per(cid:373)a(cid:374)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge i(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour that results fro(cid:373) so(cid:373)e type of experience. The change in behaviour does not have to be immediate- it might not become evident until long after the experience has occurred. Example: reading the textbook is a behaviour, changing your behaviour as a result is learning. Assu(cid:373)es that a perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s a(cid:271)ilities a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ioural te(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)ies are largely i(cid:374)(cid:271)or(cid:374) Plato believes that everything we know is inborn.