Psych 1 - General Psychology - Lecture 5

[siempresola77]

trying to pass my psychology clep test in 3 days... reading the psychology textbook and using the lectures to supplement... its great... *i hope i pass*

[agyjoah]

h8 .........' wv '

[agyjoah]

<3

[calvinbush1]

3 people dont likes work and lecture

[agapitoflores001]

Yeah very nice. Useful and educational.

[thantawa]

Thanks for the upload!

[orangenassau]

Great lecture...good information...clear explanation.

[pyreflynight]

"to the *idea* of the stimulus".. like when you think of eating a lemon yeah? :D

[Nisar1124]

i went through 5 lectures in 5 some hrs.. Motivation?

[AFFIRMATIONS1]

thanks so much

[bishopk56]

thankx

[SP8CECADET]

but the removal or introduction of the instinct's themselves? (hunger, reproductive instincts)

[SP8CECADET]

Are basic instinct's spread across the cortex like memory and the like, or are they localized in any specific region of the brain? Can the basic instincts of a species be nullified or re-written through conditioning over a period of several generations via control of the enviromental stimulation, or producing a need for "mental evolution" like the physical adaptations of darwin's finch's? not as such to develope new behaviour by which to satisfy instinct's or in response to these instinct's,

[anangryfrenchpastry2]

lol i was watchin the cheeseburger josh video while listenin to this.

went along kinda good in some parts haha

[rscott932]

I thank you professor for your understanding and your style of teaching. I was having difficulty in simply reading my text and having no tangible lecture with my professor.

[dasgh0stryt3r]

Very good presentation of the material. Are any of the slides available to download? I'd really like to add some of them to my notes.

[gtrgy888]

Good lecture, but you do your students a grave disservice by perpetuating the myth of the intermediary mind. The mind does not consist of variables, and therefore, does not qualify as a falsifiable focus of study. Do read "On Behaviorism" carefully. Cognitive science belongs in the trash pile of scientific endeavor, much like spontaneous generation.

[psychobollox]

@gtrgy888

so you - at 21 - know better than a person who is an expert in the field of social cognition and who has probably read that book more times than you have?

give me a bloody break!

[psychobollox]

@gtrgy888

even the behaviourists accepted the notion of 'private events' - this is the activities of what we might call 'mind'. not only did they accept their existence (even if they didn't accord them special status), at least Skinner was very clear on how important it was to understand such events in order to understand the public events.

[gtrgy888]

@psychobollox I know that, to Skinner, internal states constitute reactions to stimuli, not causes of action. So in that sense, behaviorists accept internal states but reject the causal mind. Internal states can be useful for inferring in the hypothetical sense, but cannot inform a functional assessment of why a person acts as they do. In education particularly, traditional notions of 'expanding the mind' either fail to work as planned or cannot demonstrate their successes empirically.

[psychobollox]

@gtrgy888

i know that mental events cannot be objectively studied but they are still useful as bases for the hypotheses that come out of a functional behavioural assessment. The behaviourist tradition doesn't reject the notion of a causal mind entirely (at least, Skinner's way of doing it doesn't). The point is that an emotional reaction to something can very much influence a person's behavioural response to some event ... as can some belief about some event. These things need to be studied.

[psychobollox]

@gtrgy888

" In education particularly, traditional notions of 'expanding the mind' either fail to work as planned or cannot demonstrate their successes empirically."

I'd say that such things are difficult to verify empirically, because the outcomes are difficult to operationalise. Doesn't make them impossible- just difficult.

On educational outcomes, Bloom's taxonomy is a pretty good way of operationalising things in very behaviourally-oriented terms.

[gtrgy888]

@psychobollox Thanks for the recommendation.

[psychobollox]

@gtrgy888

Very welcome. Many have criticised his taxonomy purely because it is oriented towards behavioural evidence, but - since we cannot directly observe learning in the mentalistic sense - we have to infer it from what people do as a result of that learning. And what people do is basically behaviour.

Seems fitting to me, then, that we should look for behavioural evidence of learning.

[gtrgy888]

@psychobollox In my admittedly shallow experience with teaching, I've found that the best students also receive the most reinforcement from the studies they pursue, whether as a result of faculty encouragement or effective self management. In the US especially, administrators and educators must reassess how education is delivered and what purpose it serves. It seems to me that learning should function more as a public service than a competitive arena.

[falloutgodTeutonicL]

dude thanks so much this isone thing i want to learn the others are history and politics

[kiob]

Is the term generalization gradient is right only for cases where the stimulus is similar to the conditioned stimulus or it is also true of other stimuli the animal may see in the environment such as the examiner who brings the food?

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[alsamarino]

is a phobia considered a learning experience if you do not count learning by injury as learning?

[UserIsAnFBIAgent]

Science RULZ...

Kick Some Ass with Psychology. Learning How people think and how you think, is key.

The Study of the Mind and Soul. Awesome.

[plm123456123]

OMG that guy's voice is awesome!

[kiminokami]

I'm salivating just hearing about classical conditioning.

[5t4ytru3]

homo

[inthebehljahr]

@kiminokami

lol

[buenotc]

thanks......so much better than my current professor.......

[buenotc]

mark: 32:25

[kingjohnkk]

maturation has to do with society and sociocultural learning. here the conditioning learning are the laws to the foundations of our emotional lives. whatever we experience such as being hurt, we'll tend to stay away from relationships. no reinforcements, no responses. truly psychologically relative.

[chrisrobertgray]

Very good lecture.

[captainirrelevant]

"Maturation isn't learning". Interesting. Really? How can maturation properly be distinguished from learning?

[CocoMac877]

i think because learning is resulting from experience while maturation is merely to do with age, the length of time development has been occurring for

[captainirrelevant]

I would tend to agree, but that can be problematic to define properly. Can you really imagine a form of maturation in which there is no experience? What part of learning is kids just growing up? Unanswerable question probably.

[CocoMac877]

aye its like most things, u can make generalisations, bt its never actually that clear cut

[reason285]

I would think of it in terms of mental and or emotional development. Learning can be thought of as acquiring knowledge; maturation is mental and emotional development.

[kiminokami]

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[isegoria1]

Maybe I am jumping ahead, but could the CS and US examples with food and bell be also transposed to a alcoholic model in which a persons drinking and effecr steadily increases and then ceases drinking and starts into "recovery"? The extinction phase as recovery. and relearn phase as the relapse?

[psychobollox]

@isegoria1

there is a conditioning element to this, and the biological element of this phenomenon may be that a person has a vulnerability to being easily reinforced in drinking behaviour by the amount of dopamine released whilst drinking. it's much more complicated than can be expounded on in this space. but essentially, you are thinking along the right lines, certainly as far as a purely behavioural model goes.

[isegoria1]

@psychobollox Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question - it is appreciated.