PSYCH207 Study Guide - Final Guide: Leda Cosmides, Wilhelm Wundt, Ulric Neisser
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Mill, rene descartes, george berkeley, immanuel kant - two central philosophical traditions of human nature: mill, locke, hume, berk follow empiricist position of aristotle; descartes and kant nativist of. William james (us) - opposite wundt; very interpersonal and supervised 100s of experiments. Considered habit as fly-wheel of society, mechanism to keep our behaviour in bounds (everything you do counts so avoid bad ones. Functionalists draw on darwinian theory to extend biological conceptions of adaptation to psychological phenomena. Differ from structionalists in methods and focus; structionalists wanted to only use labs to conduct studies, functionalists in real life; psychologists study whole organisms. Behaviourism - purely objective natural science, prediction and control of behaviour. Ivan pavlov used classic conditioning and edward thorndike instrumental conditioning for obvservable stimuli and responses. John watson: theoretical goal is prediction and control of behaviour - said no line between man and brute. Don"t like introspections because if there is a disagreement.
