PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behaviorism, The Roots, Edward B. Titchener
11 Dec 2015
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The cognitive revolution took place across the 50s and 60s and represented a change in the style of research used by psychologists. In the late 19th century scholars like wilhelm wundt and edward titchener launched research psychology, concerned with the study of conscious mental events. Believed that the only way to study thoughts is for each of us to introspect or look within . Problem: some thoughts are unconscious, no way to test claims or solving disagreements. Objective data: behaviours, stimuli (measurable/recordable/physical), learning history. Behaviourist theory: broad principles concerned with how behaviour changes in response to different configurations of stimuli. Dominated america in the first half of the 20th century. Problem: some behaviours cannot be explained by only overt, observable behaviour. Transcendental method: begin with observable facts and then work backward from these observations.
