MATH114 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Confounding, Habituation, Clinical Psychology

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Mathematics
• Course: MATH114
• Professor: Venera Hrimiuc

Document Summary

Psychologists: biological, psychological, environmental factors that influence behaviour: perspectives: a theoretical vantage point from which to analyze behaviour and its causes. Introspection: looking within: find sensations, basic elements of consciousness: sensory stimuli and describe inner experiences: too subjective, wilhelm wundt (1832-1920): first experimental psychology lab in university of. Human shaped purely by environment: ivan pavlov (1849-1936): learning occurs when events associated w each other (dogs, edward thorndike (1874-1949): learning through consequences. Law of effect: behaviourism: environmental control of behavior through learning. John b. watson (1878-1958): opposed mentalism of structuralists, functionalists, psychoanalysts. Observable behaviour not inner consciousness: b. f. skinner (1904-1990): nothing inside will explain behaviour. How does it differ from radical behaviourism: cognitive behaviourism: learning experiences and environment affect behaviour. Using levels of analysis to integrate the perspective: biological level: study behaviour and causes in terms of brain functioning, hormones, genetic factors shaped over course of evolution, psychological level: cognitive perspective, how thought, memory, and planning influence behaviour.