PSY 252 CAL POLY EXAM 1 Questions and Answer | Latest Update 2024/2025
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Module
PSY 252
Institution
PSY 252
Operant conditioning (instrumental conditioning)
~~> Skinner
Social Psychology
~~> the scientific study of how we feel about, and behave toward the
people around us and how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are
influenced by those people
Kurt Lewin
~~> Father of Social Psychol...
~~> Kurt Lewin: Behavior= f(person, social situation) function of (depends on)
person's characteristics and influence of a social situation
evolutionary adaptation
~~> The assumption that human nature, including much of our social
behavior, is determined largely by our evolutionary past
fitness
~~> the extent to which having a given characteristic helps the individual
organism to survive and to reproduce at a higher rate than do other
members of the species who do not have the characteristic.
Fitter organisms pass on...
~~> Their genes more successfully to later generations, making the
characteristics that produce fitness more likely to become part of the
organisms' nature than are characteristics that do not produce fitness
genes provide us..
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
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