“Getting inside of your head”

2. “Getting inside of your head”

3. Behaviorism • Only examines data that is public and observable • Introspection is unimportant • Personality = What you actually do • Traits, UCS, CS experiences, do not matter • Only B data matter

4. Behaviorism • What determines personality? • The observed environment • Not hidden process inside the mind

5. Behaviorism • All that matters is 1) A persons behavior 2) A persons environment

6. Philosophical Roots • Empiricism • Everything you know comes from experience • Tabula Rasa • Note how this is different than other approaches

7. Philosophical Roots • Associationism • Two things become associated into one if they are repeatedly experienced close together

8. Philosophical Roots Noise Book

9. Philosophical Roots Thunder Lightning

10. Philosophical Roots

11. Philosophical Roots • Both empiricism and associatoinism are all that is needed to explain all knowledge • Even complex ideas can be seen as combinations of simple ideas • Reductionism David Hume John Locke Thomas Hobbes

12. Philosophical Roots • One last element is missing • What makes you go? • Why do people behave at all?

13. Philosophical Roots • Hedonism • People learn in order to • 1) Seek pleasure • 2) Avoid pain

14. Philosophical Roots • 1) Empiricism • 2) Associationism • 3) Hedonism

15. Behaviorism • “Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, or abilities”

16. Learning • A stable change in behavior as a function of one’s experience with the environment • What learning is not • the acquisition of knowledge Environment Behavior Learning

17. Types of Learning • 1) Habituation • 2) Classical Conditioning • 3) Operant Conditioning

18. Habituation • Why do you jump less each time? • You learned! • Simplest type of learning

20. Habituation • The initial response can be maintained if the stimulus is changed or increased with each exposure

23. Classical Conditioning Why do you get anxious at the sight of a balloon and a pen? Why do you cringe when you see fingernails and a chalk board?

24. Ivan Pavlov

25. Classical Conditioning • Condition • “learned” • Stimulus • a condition that elicits a response • Response • a behavior done after the stimulus

26. Classical Conditioning • Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS) • Unconditioned Response (UCR) • Conditioned Stimulus (CS) • Conditioned Response (CR)

27. Classical Conditioning

31. Balloon • Figure out the: • Neutral Stimulus • UCS • UCR • CS • CR

33. Classical Conditioning in Dating • Make women/men love you! • Figure out the: • Neutral Stimulus • UCS • UCR • CS • CR

34. Classical Conditioning in Dating Neutral Stimulus No response

35. Classical Conditioning in Dating UCS UCR

36. Classical Conditioning in Dating Neutral Stimulus UCR and UCS

37. Classical Conditioning in Dating CS CR

38. Classical Conditioning in Dating But. . . Day 1

39. Classical Conditioning in Dating But. . . Day 2

40. Classical Conditioning in Dating But. . . Day 100

41. Classical Conditioning in Dating But. . . Day 150 Extinction

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45. Or Second-order conditioning Something paired with the CS can itself begin to elicit the response

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49. Or Stimulus Generalization Stimuli like the CS well tend to elicit the same response as the CS

50. Questionnaire