PSY100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Frans De Waal, Human Sexual Response Cycle, Walter Bradford Cannon

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Ivan pavlov conditioning experiments with dogs; came up with the idea of classical conditioning. John b. watson studied the rat; said animals can be used to study humans because humans are nothing special ; psychology predicts and controls behaviour. B. f. skinner behaviour can be controlled through behaviourist approaches, nature of society can be controlled. Skinner box: administer punishments and rewards and influence organisms behaviour based on rewards and punishments. Frans de waal research with primates; one monkey gets cucumber, one gets grape; monkey that gets cucumber gets upset and it diminishes its experience of reward by contrasting other reward; combine classic and operant conditions w/ animal training. Honzik rats running through a maze; learning not immediately expressed until the organism is reinforced for doing so (latent learning) Suffered from anterograde amnesia study where a white and black student shove each other; white persons shove seen as more playful, black persons shove is seen as more aggressive.