PSYC 2012 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Introspection, Gestalt Psychology
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However, the exception to this general pattern was the observation of how often they punched bobo, and in this case the effects of gender were reversed: boys were more likely to imitate same-sex models than girls. The evidence for girls imitating same-sex models is not strong: boys imitated more physically aggressive acts than girls. Pavlov discovered that classical conditioning applies to animals. Cognitive psych: 3) punishers- responses from the environment that decrease the likelihood of a behavior being repeated. According to empiricism: cognitive psychology- school of psychology where focus is on human mental processes and how they affect human interaction with the world; involves philosophical backgrounds such as rationalism and empiricism. An example of mental set was provided by william bryan, an american student working in k lpe"s laboratory: bryan presented subjects with cards that had nonsense syllables written on them in various colors.
