PS261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Behaviour, Biological Process, Reinforcement Learning

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Biological process that facilitates adaptation to one"s environment: integrity of life depends on successfully accomplishing a number of biological functions such as respiration, digestion and resisting disease. Reproduction significantly improved by learning: learning involves acquisition of new behaviour, but also the decrease or loss of a reaction. Withholding responses is as important as making them: two types of learning. Declarative/episodic learning: more accessible to conscious report. Many aspects of human behaviour occur without awareness. People are typically inaccurate with reporting their own behaviour: historical antecedents, roots from descartes, before descartes. Not considered to be controlled by external stimuli or mechanistic natural laws. Our actions were a result of our intent: recognized that many people do are automatic reactions to external stimuli. Developed dualistic view of human behaviour dualism: dualism. Voluntary: does not have to be triggered by external stimuli and occurs because of person"s conscious intent to act in that particular manner.

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