PS261 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Empiricism, Latent Learning
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Empiricism: learning is opposite of free will, our behaviour is largely governed by forces and laws which stems from behaviourism. Stimulus and response: looking at behaviour as a means of responding to our environment. Enduring change in mechanisms of behavior involving stimuli and/r responses that results from prior experience with those or similar stimuli and responses. Latent learning: distinguishes between learning and performing. Involuntary (automatic behaviour: voluntary (conscious behaviour, reflexes, nativism innate ideas. Idea that we are born with certain beliefs. Idea that: everything in life we do is to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Mind works by association: rules of association (also stated by aristotle), contiguity, similarity, contrast, nonsense syllables. Sechenov: fou(cid:374)d that it does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)atter the size of the sti(cid:373)ulus it (cid:272)a(cid:374) still (cid:272)reate a huge response. Darwin paved way for studying learning by studying it in animals. Relevant features things that are universal between humans and animals. Experiments: cause and effect, experimental and control groups.
