PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Brenda Milner, Falsifiability, Little Albert Experiment
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Completed phd studied under william james at harvard. Started first experimental lab at a women"s college (wellesley) in 1891) System of self psychology: science of the self, or person, as related to its environment, physical and social. One of 2 first women members and first female president of the american psychological association. Perceptual wholes: a perception is other than the sum of its parts. Led by max wertheimer (!880-1943) law, philosopher, psychologist. Principles of perceptual organization, how different objects are grouped in the mind. Arose in objection to both structuralism (too subjective) and functionalism (non-experimental) Founded by john b. watson (!878-1958: inspired by ivan pavlov (dogs, little albert (1920) case study in fear conditioning. Mary cover jones (!897-1987) psychologist: little peter 1924 follow-up to watson"s work on desensitization of fear, mother of behavioural therapy , f. skinner (!897-1987), author, inventor, psychologist, philosopher, operant conditioning (reward and punishment, skinner box .
