PSYCH 133B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Autonomic Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Axon Terminal
3 May 2016
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Converted into physical symptoms: psychoanalytic theory a. Projection project your own feelings onto someone else: psychosexual development childhood experiences shapes personality and emotional health. Oedipal conflict sexual desire for mothers identify with fathers. Electra complex penis envy for girls: the cognitive-behavioral paradigm, wilhelm wundt scientific study of psychological phenomena, learning theory and research a. Classical conditioning learning through association (unconditioned stimulus/ response, conditioned stimulus/response) Extinction gradually occurs once a conditioned stimulus no longer paired with an unconditioned stimulus: b. f. skinner. Operant conditioning behavior is a function of its consequences (positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment, response cost, extinction) c. Behaviorism observable behavior only appropriate subject for science of psychology. Thoughts and emotions cannot be measured objectively. Neurochemistry the ultimate explanation of abnormal behavior: different levels of analysis for understanding psychological problems, causality. Diathesis predisposition toward developing a disorder ex. Mental disorders develop when a stress is added on top of a predisposition.
