PSYC 460- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)
6 Oct 2017
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Intellect is inborn (nature); learning is a process of inner reflection. Learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior potentiality that occurs as a result of reinforced practice (kimble) Proposed area of behaviorism as a way of studying human behavior. Behavior operates on the environment stimulus (reinforcer) creates pleasure (reinforcement) If the response in the presence of a stimulus is followed by a satisfying event, the association between the stimulus and the response is strengthened. If the response is followed by an annoying event, the association is weakened. If my behavior creates pleasure, then do it again . Discriminative stimulus (sd) responses are reinforced or punished in the presence of the discriminative stimulus. Typically environmental stimuli that meet basic human needs. I. e. food, water, sexual stimulation, relief from hot/cold, social contact, sensory stimulation. S = no reward will be delivered in that context. I. e. rat turning clockwise in dark and counterclockwise in light to get rewards.
