PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Tabula Rasa, Cue Reactivity, Fear Conditioning
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Bf skinner had greatest influence on contemporary psychological science. Influenced by james b. watson"s behaviorism and psychologist ivan pavlov. Wrote walden two, depicting a utopia where children are raised only w/ praise and never punished. Learning: an enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience; understanding how events are related. Associations develop through conditioning: process in which environmental stimuli and behavior responses become connected. Classical/pavlovian conditioning: we learn that two types of events go together (watch scary movie hearts beat faster) Operant/instrumental conditioning: we learn that behavior leads to a certain outcome (e. g. studying better grades) Classical conditioning: a type of learned response that occurs when a neutral object comes to elicit a reflexive response when it is associated w/ a stimulus that already produces that response. Believed that conditioning is the basis for how animals learn to adapt to environment (influenced by darwin)
