PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7&8: Abraham Maslow, Libido, Emotional Expression
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Learning involves the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, or responses from experience that result in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. This definition emphasizes these key ideas: learning is based on experience. Behaviorism, with its insistence on measuring only observable, quantifiable behavior and its dismissal of mental activity as irrelevant and unknowable, was the major outlook of most psychologists working from the 1930s through the 1950s. John watson kick started the behaviourist movement arguing that psychologists should never use the terms consciousness, mental states, mind, content, etc. Pavlov won the nobel prize for his work in salivation of dogs. Pavlov studied the digestive processes of laboratory animals and explored into spit and drool revealed one form of learning. Classical conditioning occurs when a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response. Four basic elements of classical conditioning: when food is presented, the dogs began to salivate.
