PSYC 4008 : Psyc 4008 Final
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Chapter 10: behaviorism: primary force today and dominant theoretical perspective, american type of psychology that originated from russian psychology. If you present a conditioned stimulus repeatedly and don"t pair it with the unconditioned stimulus, extinction occurs. If you present middle c on a piano and condition a response and then play a b flat and observed a response, this is called stimulus generalization or generalization of the stimulus. Psychological review in 1913 psychology as the behaviorist views it : advocates that if we really want to be a science, we"re going to have to face the fact that mind can"t be our subject matter. Just can"t directly measure and quantify it as science demands. If behavior is motivated by mental events, it doesn"t really matter. Just need to explain the behavior (how to change it and when it"s going to happen) Just need to predict it and control it doesn"t really matter if there"s a.
