ASTRON 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Positive Psychology, Social Philosophy, Epicurus
14 Oct 2014
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Change of behaviour as a function of experience. Behaviour is a direct result of environment (rewards and punishments) How your behaviour is a function of the environmental situation. We can only know what we can see and we can see everything we need to know. Anybody in the same situation would do exactly the same thing. Sum of everything that is directly observable that you do. Our experiences is the direct product of reality and this experience determines our personality, knowledge, mind"s structure and behaviour. When 2 things, objective, psychological, arbitrary or artifical become mentally associated as one if they are repeated close together in time. Motivation to learn: seek pleasure and avoid plain. The best society is one that creates the most happiness for the most people. Eudaimonic well-being (meaningful life) >> hedonistic well-being (pleasurable life) Chapter 15 - social learning, donald, rotter, band, misch page 1. Simplest way behaviour changes as a result of experience.
