Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Neurosis, Psychodynamics, Fear

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Goal was to conduct research that was experimental and yet relevant to understanding complex social behaviour and individual differences; objectively testable, studied the learning mechanisms through which certain events stimuli become. Neurotic conflict: the core: freud saw conflict and anxiety as fundamental for understanding personality. Recasting conflict in learning terms: to make approach-avoidance conflicts open to experimental research, dollard and. Cue: determine when you will respond to some drive, where, and which response. Anxiety and repression: dollard and miller like freud accept unconscious factors as critically important determinants of behaviour and give anxiety a central palce in dynamics. Issue of critics saying our behaviour is very different from rats: social behaviour is fundamentally different than the behaviour of animals in the lab and requires a different methodology. Classical conditioning: learning emotional associations: classical conditioning = type of learning first demonstrated by ivan pavlov, neutral stimulus (bells) conditioned by being paired w/ unconditioned stimulus.