PSYB45H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Behaviorism, Programmed Learning, Classical Conditioning
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Development of behaviour depends on heredity and experience: heredity charts the course of maturation; and develops the tendency towards behaviours of certain types. Respondent conditioning = conditioning a response (pavlov) Operant conditioning = learning behaviour through the outcomes (pos. /neg. Modeling = learn by watching (bandura and bobo doll) Applied behaviour analysis = field of practice/study that focuses on using principles of learning to understand and improve socially significant behaviours. (particularly operant) Focus on behavioural methods; cognitive methods focus on modifying thought processes. Behaviour analysts focus on: defining people"s current status and progress in terms of behaviours, being able to measure the behaviour, whenever possible assessing covert behaviours in terms of overt actions. Psychoanalytic theory (freud) = behaviour as an expression of their personality and component forces such as drive and conflicts. Behaviourism emerged early 1900"s (watson, skinner) = emphasises study of observable and measureable behaviour.
