PSYC 181 Chapter 1: P181-CH1.Science of Behavior (1)

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Chapter 1: a science of behavior: perspective, history, and assumptions. Learning: acquisition, maintenance, and change of an organism"s behavior as a result of lifetime events: behavior: everything an organism does, including private and covert behavior. Two types of conditioning: reflex: when an unconditioned stimulus (us) elicits an unconditioned response (us-->ur) Involves respondent behavior elicited by a biologically relevant stimulus: useful because those who quickly and reliably responded were more likely to live and reproduce, different reflexes for difference species. Selections as a casual process: selection of consequences: skinner"s generalized term for stating that the main organizing principle of contemporary biology is evolution through natural selection, three levels, 1. The selection over generalization for genes related to survival and reproduction (natural of darwinian selection: 2. The selection for behavior within the lifetime of an individual organism (selection by operant conditioning: 3.

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