Chapter 1 - Intro

Question 1

Learning

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Relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience

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Two types of learning

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Classical & operant conditioning

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Classical conditioning (Pavlovian/respondent conditioning)

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Process through which inborn behaviors (reflexive/involuntary) become produced in new situations

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Classical conditioning example (Pavlov)

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Dog learns to salivate to bell that has previously been paired with food

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Operant conditioning

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Involves strengthening or weakening a behavior (goal directed/voluntary) as a result of rewards or consequences

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Operant conditioning (rats)

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Rat learns that pressing lever = food, effect is that it increases the tendency of the rat pressing the lever. So the reward food, strengthens future occurrence of behavior.

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Nativist (Nature) perspective

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Plato’s idea that everything we know is innate and learning is simply a process of inner reflection to uncover knowledge that already exists within

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Empiricist (Nurture) perspective

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Aristole’s idea that knowledge is acquired through experience

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Aristole’s 4 laws of association

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Law of 1. Similarity 2. Contrast 3. Contiguity 4. Frequency

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Law of similarity

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Events that are similar become associated with each other (cars and trucks)

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Law of contrast

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Events that are opposites become associated with each other (tall and short)

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Law of contiguity

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Events occurring in close proximity in time or space become associated (lightening then thunder)

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Law of frequency

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The more two items occur together, the stronger they’re associated (perfume and friend)

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Behavior

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Any activity an organism that can be observed or somehow measured

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Mind body dualism perspective

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Descartes idea where some human behaviors are involuntary by external stimulation while others are freely chosen and controlled by the mind

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British empiricism

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John locke’s idea that a newborn is a blank state (tabula rasa) where experiences are written

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Structuralism

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Wilhelm Wundt idea that the structure of the mind can be determined by identifying the basic elements that compose it using introspection (largely promoted by Titchener)

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Functionalism

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William James idea that emphasized the purpose of consciousness and behavior and that the mind evolved to help us adapt to the world around us (Darwinism influences)

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Evolution

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Darwin’s theory that 1. Traits vary both within and between species 2. Many traits are genetic 3. Organisms must compete for limited resources

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Behaviorism

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John watson’s idea that is a natural science that focuses on the study of environmental influences on observable behavior

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Law of parsimony

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Preference for a simple explanation as compared to a complex one

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Morgan’s canon

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Interpret behavior in primitive (reflexes) rather than mentalistic processes (reasoning)

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Watson’s Methodological Behaviorism

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Only study publicly observable behavior and never anything that’s subjective (thoughts) agreed with Pavlov that all behavior is reflexive

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S-R theory

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Watson’s theory of learning that involves the development of connection between an environmental event (stimulus) and specific behavior (response)

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Bandura’s social learning

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Bandura studied process of observational learning and believes in internal events like expectations and self-referent thoughts are reflection of our own abilities and accomplishments influence behavior

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Reciprocal determinism

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Bandura’s belief that internal events (thoughts/feelings) are directly interconnected to environmental events and observable behavior

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Cognitive behavior therapy

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Therapy influenced by bandura’s social learning theory

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Skinner’s radical behaviorism

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Emphasizes the impact of the environment on observable behavior and rejects the idea of internal events

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Countercontrol

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An ability humans develop when they learn how deliberate manipulation of environmental events alter impact on our behavior

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Covert

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Private behaviors (think/feel)

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Overt

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Publicly observable behaviors

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Behavior analysis

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Technology of behavior in which basic principles of behaviors are applied to real world issues

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Cognitive behaviorism

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A brand of behaviorism that utilizes interventions Marianne’s, usually form of hypothesized cognitive processes to help explain behavior

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Cognitive map

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Mental representation of one’s spatial surroundings

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Evolutionary adaption

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An inherited trait that has been shaped through natural selection

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Latent learning

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Learning that occurs in the absence of any observable demonstration of learning and only becomes apparent under a diff set of conditions

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Neobehaviorism

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A branch of behaviorism that utilizes interventions variables, in form of hypothesized physiological processes, to help explain behavior