PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Victim Blaming, Behavioral Engineering, Omen
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Chapter 4: origins of cb: learning & situational factors. Basic premise is that cb is learned. Psychologist have delineated 3 major types of learning: classical/pavlovian conditioning. Dog learned to salivate at sound of bell, because bell had been associated with arrival of food. Even when food was not presented, dogs salivated when bell was rung. People can learn they have been rewarded/punished for behavior. Biological factors appear to account in part for individual differences in susceptibility to classical conditioning. Human being is automaton & acts in monotonous routine manner without active intelligence. Pair neutral stimulus with closely following reading/painful event. & alert, intact robot will eventually & automatically connect stimulus with reward/pain. This sequence may be powerful factor in some behaviors, but certainly not in all/even most. Conditioning is only 1 of several factors involved in acquisition. Learner must do something to e in order to obtain reward/avoid punishment.
