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Behaviourism & Humanistic Psychology Flashcards

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methodological behaviourism

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based on studying only what is directly observable (behaviour)

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behaviourism is based on 2 types of learning

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  • classical conditioning
  • operant conditioning
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Ivan Pavlov

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conducted an experiment with dogs, wherein he conditioned them to associate a bell and to respond to it; developed the idea of classical conditioning

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Edward Thorndike

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performed a classic puzzle box experiment, in which a box filled with animals was used to test how they’d learn to escape via operating a lever; developed the idea of operational conditioning

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Thorndike’s laws of operant conditioning

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  • learning is incremental
  • learning occurs automatically
  • all animals learn the same way
  • law of effect
  • law of use
  • law of disuse
  • law of recency
  • multiple response
  • set/attitude
  • prepotency of elements
  • response by analogy
  • identical elements theory of transfer
  • associative shifting
  • law of readiness
  • identifiability
  • availability
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operant conditioning

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based on how an organism tends to repeat behaviours it’s rewarded for

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law of disuse

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the longer an association is unused, the weaker it is

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law of effect

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if an association is followed by satisfaction, it will be strengthened; if followed by annoyance, it will be weakened

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law of use

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the more an association is used, the stronger it is

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law of recency

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the most recent response is likely to occur

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response by analogy

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responses from a related or similar context may be used in a new one

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multiple responses

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animals try diff responses (trial and error) if the first doesn’t lead to a specific state of affairs

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set/attitude

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animals are predisposed to act in a specific way

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prepotency of elements

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subject can filter out irrelevant aspects of a problem and focus on and respond to significant elements

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identical elements theory of transfer

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the more similar situations are, the greater the amount of info that will transfer; if situations have no commonalities, info learned in one won’t be valuable in the other

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associative shifting

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it’s possible to shift any response from occurring with 1 stimulus to occurring with another

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law of readiness

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quality in responses and connections that results in readiness to act; behavior and learning are influenced by (un)readiness and its strength

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identifiability

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identification/placement of a situation is the first response of the nervous system, which can recognize it; connections can be made to each other or to another response, and these depend on original identification

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availability

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ease of getting a specific response

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John B Watson

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coined “behaviourism” and believed that psych should be a natural, empirical science with no place for introspection

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Little Albert experiment

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one of Watson’s unethical experiments, wherein he classically conditioned a child to be scared of rats and animals

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2 big ideas related to free will

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  • inherent tendencies: much of who you are is already based on genetic and biological tendencies (Watson didn’t believe in this, arguing instead that we were blank slates)
  • environmental influences: we are affected by our env
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Burrhus F. Skinner

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associated with the Skinner box, which investigated operant conditioning wherein ppl learn to repeatedly perform or not perform a behaviour based on the response to it; operant conditioning also studies how an organism operates on its env

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key terms in Skinner’s theory

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  • reinforcement
  • punishment
  • positive / negative reinforcement
  • positive / negative punishment
  • escape
  • active avoidance
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reinforcement
increases behaviour
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positive reinforcement
adds a stimulus
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negative reinforcement
removes a stimulus
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escape
removes noxious stimuli
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active avoidance
avoids noxious stimuli
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punishment
decreases behaviour
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positive punishment
adds noxious stimuli
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negative punishment
removes a good stimulus
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Skinner's idea of a world that reinforces best behaviours
encouraged looking at social determinants of behaviour and argued that we admire those who succeed despite bad environments, bc their environmental controls are less conspicuous/conscious
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dignity
extent to which you take credit for success and blame for failures
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soft determinists
believe that only some things are under our control
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Albert Bandura
argued that we seem to choose our goals and the ppl we surround ourselves with, but that we don't choose our genes or the env we're born into
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gamification
adding of badges, prompts, and competition to natural behaviours
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humanistic psychology
emerged as the 3rd force after psychodynamic psych and behaviourism, holds an optimistic view of humanity of its substantial capacity to be self-determining, strives ot enhace quality of choice, creativity, interaction of body, mind, and spirit, and capacity to become more aware, free, responsible, and self-directing
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key leaders of humanistic psych
- Carl Rogers - Rollo May - Abraham Maslow - Fritz Perls
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Carl Rogers
one of the first to discuss client-centred (collaborative) care that focuses on a collaborative relationship with clients to create the Rochester experience (assuming they are the expert of their own lives and can explain their thoughts and behaviours)
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3 major aspects of Rogers's work
- method of counselling - theory of personality - ideas of the good life
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Rogers's theory of counselling
- there are necessary and sufficient conditions for therapeutic personality change that leads to understanding solutions - congruence - therapist is authentic and not putting on a façade - unconditional positive regard - deep, genuine caring for the client - empathy - sensitively and accurately understanding the client's experiences
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6 conditions for personality change
- 2 persons are in psychological contact - the client is experiencing incongruency - the therapist is congruent and integrated in the relationship - therapist experiences UPR for the client - therapist experiences empathy for the client's internal frame of reference and endeavors to communicate this to the client - communication to the client is achieved to a minimal degree
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Rogers's theory of personality
- organized and consistent - prone to environmental influences - causes behaviours and reactions to others - patterns of thoughts, behaviours, and feelings that make you unique
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Rogers's conception of the good life
- growing openness to experience (moving away from defensiveness) - increasingly existential lifestyle (living each moment fully) - freedom of choice (not being restricted by incongruence and ability to make a wide range of choices to feel responsible for own behaviour) - higher levels of creativity - reliability and constructiveness (experiencing joy, pain, love, heartbreak, etc. more intensely)
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important terms in Rogers's theory
- phenomenology - authenticity - self-actualization
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phenomenology
seeking to understand the outside world as it's interpreted by and thru human consciousness. one of the ways distress occurs is when there's a difference between who we think we are, who we are, and who we'd like to be (incongruence between the ideal self, self-image, and true self)
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phenomenal field
space of perceptions that's constructed by our outer world experiences as filtered thru our personal needs, goals, and beliefs
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authenticity
ideal self is based both on subliminal messages perpetuated by society and listening to ourselves; all of us have a personality and a desire to honour that personality but what we get rewarded for (conditions for worth) often conflict with who we authentically are (organismic valuing process) which creates distress
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self-actualization
to fulfill one's full potential and achieve the highest level of 'human-beingness' possible; Rogers believed that the 2 based human needs are self-actualization and positive regard (UPR leads to self-actualization, whereas conditional PR leads to self-discrepancies)
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Rollo May
influenced by Kierkegaard's philosophy that it's thru facing anxiety that freedom is achieved, distinguished between normal and neurotic anxiety (over-responding to a threat), developed existential therapy
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existential therapy
focuses on our freedom to choose the life we want and overcome anxiety about death and things we can't control, emphasizes present choices and future situations to enable a new freedom and responsibility to act; by accepting limitations and mortality, we can overcome anxiety and view life as moments in which we're fundamentally free
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Fritz Perls
developed gestalt therapy
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gestalt therapy
form of psychotherapy centred on increasing a person's awareness, freedom, and self-direction, focuses on the present instead of past experiences, utilizes active techniques like client roleplay , creative arts to go beyond fixing a problem and become more aware of who you are
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other gestalt techniques and their users
- Mary Whitehouse - movement - Janine Rhyne - art - Gendin - assessed where stress resided in clients' bodies
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Abraham Maslow
established the hierarchy of needs, travelled to Calgary and found that extremely high levels of 'cooperation, minimal inequality, restorative justice, full bellies,...and life satisfaction' amongst the Blackfoot nation
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hierarchy of needs
categorized human needs in a pyramid form
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deficiency needs
the bottom 4 levels of Maslow's pyramid (esteem, love and belonging, safety, and physiological needs) that don't have significant effects when satiated
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growth need
self-actualization to be all you can be, when satiated, this results in feelings of joy or contribution, only a small minority of ppl can do so bc it requires uncommon qualities like honesty, independence, objectivity, etc.

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