PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: John Dollard, Heinz Hartmann, Neal E. Miller
11 Dec 2016
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From experimental psychology of learning to explain personality and complex social behavior e. g. social responses to frustration. Hypotheses from psychoanalysis and cultural anthropology translated them into language of clark hull"s theory of learning. Institute of human relations at yale included experimental and social psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, lawyers tried to answer major questions about human behavior. Content theories: psychoanalysis structural concepts (e. g. id, self-dynamism) hypothetical components of personality don"t appear in other areas of psychology concerned w/ content of mental life. Process theories: learning theories: how behavior is acquired, maintained, changed, radical behaviorism, benefited from clinical evidence of content theories nature of personality disorder, anxiety, defences, child development. Dollard"s caste and class in a southern town analysis of treatment of black in south (1930s) Dollard et al: frustration and aggression introduced approach: based on assumption that understanding behavior come from knowing principles and conditions of learning frustration is a significant condition for aggression.
