PSYC 2030 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Operational Definition, Operant Conditioning
30 Dec 2013
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Chapter 3: developing ideas for research in psychology. Basic research- describing, predicting, and explaining the fundamental principles of behaviour and mental processes. (just doing research to acquire more knowledge) Example 1: skinner box (rats)- pressing bar for food- gathers more information on how organisms learn through operant conditioning. Applied research- it has direct and immediate relevance to the solution of real-world problems. Example 1: doing researching to solve actual real life problems- take the information learned from basic research and put into practical application or practise into the real world. So when skinner did his research with rats in the skinner box (basic research) what eventually happened was that the learning principles that were acquired were than put into practice in real life situations. Field- the environment more closely matches the situations we encounter in daily living. - has better external validity. Conditions in a field can not be duplicated in a lab, it corrects misconceptions that occur in labs.
