PSY 452- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)
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The black box problem: all we can observe are the manifestations (products, output) of the mind, behavior, physiology. Problems with introspection: difficult to verify (private events, not public, end product, not the process itself, didn"t produce many interesting results. Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretation of consciousness. Basic principles of behaviorism: psychologists should focus on only what is, psychologists should explain, theories should be simple. Whether past behavior has been: became hugely influential in the u. s, work is primarily done with animals, generates many interesting results. Some data were difficult for strict behaviorism to explain. The tide turns late 1950s there was growing dissatisfaction with behaviorism: world war ii had already revealed problems.
