PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Parenting Styles, Job Satisfaction, Social Ecology
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He believed that human behaviour and person"s lives are primarily the products of social learning in culture. Given the right environment anybody can change/improve (can fix behaviour: every aspect of our lives is situated in a complex social and cultural context. Human nature = 1st context for human individuality. Social environment (family, friends) = 2nd context for human individuality *central theme of chapter: social situations, class, gender, culture and history determine human behaviour and improving lives. Behaviourism is brand of psychology that explores the ways in which observable behaviour is learned and shaped by the environment. Watson launched the behaviourist movement and was the founder of behaviourism: bragged about being able to turning a random child and raising them to becomes any kind of adult you might imagined with the right environment. He believed inheritance of capacity, talent, behaviour etc didn"t matter. Number of theories developed in behaviourism: hull"s biological-drive theory, tolman"s purposive behaviourism (cognitive)
