PSYC 2600H Chapter 1 and 2: Chapter 1 and 2
8 Mar 2018
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January 8th - readings: chapters 1 & 2. Behaviour is any activity of an organism that can be observed or somehow measured. Learning is a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results from some type of experience. Two fundamental forms of learning: classical and operant conditioning. Classical pavlovian the process by which certain inborn behaviours come to be elicited in new circumstances; reflexive or involuntary: bell: food salvation, bell salvation. Operant skinner the strengthening or weakening of a behaviour as a result of its consequences; goal directed or voluntary: lever press foot pellet, future effect: likelihood of level pressing increases. Aristotle"s tea(cid:272)her, plato, (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed that e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g (cid:449)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449) is i(cid:374)(cid:271)or(cid:374), a(cid:374)d that lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g is si(cid:373)ply a process of inner reflection to uncover the knowledge that already exists within. Aristotle argued that knowledge is not inborn but instead is acquired through experience.
