PSYC 2130 Study Guide - Final Guide: Neoteny, Classical Conditioning, Simple Explanation
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Our species has the highest amount of individuals with neotony. Period of dependency during which young vulnerable members are dependent on care givers. Parents invests enormous amount of energy in socializing the child. The central position of the learning perspective of personality is that personality is nothing more than an accumulation of all learnt tendencies that a person has acquired throughout the course of their experience. She is nothing more than the sum of her learned tendencies. Temporal contiguity: ns, ucs and repetition are necessary for this to work. Closer the stimulus to the unconditioned stimulus the higher the probability of getting that conditioned response. It does not take very long to train a puppy to sit: the cookie is a positive reinforcement, the net effect of reward learning is always an increase in the frequency of the behaviour. In aversive learning, a stimulus that has a punitive or biologically aversive quality is taken away.
