[EAB 3002] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (12 pages long!)
7 Feb 2017
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Learning: acquisition, maintenance, and change of organism"s behavior as a result of lifetime events. Chapter 1: a science of behavior: perspective, history, and assumptions. Behavior: everything an organism does, including private and covert actions. Any behavior that can be objectively and reliably measured will eventually be understood in scientific terms. It"s also determined entirely by biological and environments variables. Has been attributed to a variety of causes both within and outside of people. Internal range from metaphysical entities to hypothetical structures of the nervous system: use of metaphysical phenomena to account for behavior had been permeated social sciences (e. g. External causes have included effect of moon and tides, star arrangements, and whims of gods. Behavior theory states that all behavior is due to a complex interaction between genetic influence and environment experience based on observation and controlled experiments provides a natural-science account of the learning and behavior of organisms. Experimental analysis of behavior: natural-science approach to understanding regulation.
