PSY230H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, Harry Harlow, Cognitive Psychology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY230H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Aspects of personality: partial reinforcement: a reward that occurs after some, but not all, occurrences of a behaviour. Individuals tend to make a behavioural change when a reward is only occasionally given: behaviourists don"t look at internal traits, tendencies or motivations. John locke infants are like a blank canvas and life experiences will paint who they become: situation = big influence, pavlov laid foundation of modern learning approaches. There"s a generalization to conditioning: tendency for similar stimuli to evoke the same response: conditioned response didn"t happen for all similar stimuli. Applying conditioning principles to little albert: conditioned fear and systematic. Not personality development like jung and freud would suggest: skinner: personality is the result of reinforcement history as a child. Reinforcement = an event that strengthens a behaviour and increases the probability of repeating it in the future: influenced by pavlov and watson, as well as thorndike.