PSYC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Comparative Psychology, Operant Conditioning, Radical Behaviorism
31 Oct 2017
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Hot spring, arkansas (35 years) animals performed tricks/humanistic behaviors. Established by keller and marian breland former psychologists who left the university to earn money by applying psychological conditioning to animal behavior. Ran 140 trained-animal shows at major tourist attractions twice as many as traveling animal shows. Three stages of behaviorism: watson"s behaviorism 1924 = peak of popularity, neobehaviorism (1930-1960) includes work of tolman, hull, skinner, neo-neobehaviorism / sociobehaviorism (1960-1990) includes bandura and rotter. Return to consideration of cognitive processes while maintaining a focus on the observation of overt behavior. Operationism = the doctrine that physical concept can be defined in precise terms related to the set of operations/procedures by which it is determined. Concept of individual/private conscious experience = pseudo-problem for the science of psychology. Trend toward greater objectivity in the methodology and subject matter of psychology. Trained in the tradition of titchener"s structural psychology. Taught comparative psychology; conducted research on learning in rats.
