PSY 3121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Clark L. Hull, Mining Engineering, Suggestibility
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Second stage in behaviourism was the neobehaviorists (1930-1960) The core of psychology is the study of learning. Most behaviour can be accounted for by the laws of conditioning. Psychology must adopt the principle of operationism. The third stage was neo-neobehaviorism or social behaviours (1960-1990) This stage includes the work of bandura and rotter. Distinguished by a return to the consideration of cognitive processes while maintaining a focus on the observation of overt behaviour. Purpose was to render the language and terminology of science more objective and precise and to rid science of problems that are not actually observable or physically demonstrable. Doctrine that a physical concept can be defined in precise terms related to the set of operations or procedures by which it is determined. Holds the validity of the operations used in arriving at that finding. Viewpoint promoted by percy bridgman, physicist at harvard.
