PSYC 2330 Final: Chapter 1 POL

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Unknown

Document Summary

Learning one of the biological processes that facilitate adaptation to one"s environment. Learning to withhold reponses just as important as learning to make responses. Procedural learning (automatic) does not require awareness. Book the illusion of conscious will bargh and chartrand. A person"s life is mostly demined by unconscious awareness and guidance. 20th century behavioral psychology was overshadowed by the cognitive revolution problem solving & attention. Quote - wiers & stacy: the problem, often, is not that" substance abusers do not understand that the disadvantages of continued use outweigh the advantages; rather, they have difficulty resisting their automatically triggered impulses to use their substance of about . Rene descartes theoretical approaches to the study of learning have their roots in his philosophy- automatic reactions to external stimuli - before him people thought human behavior as entirely determined by conscious intent and free will. Cartesian dualism two classes of human behavior: