PSYC 2330- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 53 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Unit 1: stimulus, response and behavior, homeostasis, hull"s dri(cid:448)e theory, challenges, habituation & sensitization. Stimulus: a detectable change in the internal or external environment: neutral, appetitive (incentive, attract an organism), aversive (repel an organism) A set of responses of an organism, usually in reaction to a stimuli: instinctual, learned. I(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)ed (cid:271)y (cid:374)atural sele(cid:272)tio(cid:374), the (cid:272)ore of ja(cid:373)es" theory (cid:449)as a syste(cid:373) of i(cid:374)sti(cid:374)(cid:272)ts. Instincts could be overridden by experience and by each other, as many of the instincts were actually in conflict with each other. Instincts are motivators of behavior they are impulses coming from within the organism that lead to the initiation of behavior: biological. Instincts are behaviors- they exist b/c they have, or had, survival value. They are controlled by genes, and therefore they are not learned. These behaviors are ridged, insensitive to the environment, highly stereotyped and independent from learning.
