PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture 2: Early Behaviourism: beginnings of scientific psychology
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Looking at pavlov (1849-1936), watson (1878-1958) and guthrie (1886-1050) Early school career was difficult & unsuccessful. Fascinated by anatomy and the mysteries of the brain" while in college. If we really want to breakdown psychological processes, we have to see them as products of physiological actions of the brain. Started to think about how you can legitimize psychology as a science. One way we can maintain the goals of structuralism = introspectionism. Structure of the mind could be understood by breaking it down into elementary parts. Figuring out what part of the brain codes when via human experience. Can also ask participants to introspect and use it as informed data. 1861-1934 functionalism functionalist movement said: structuralism is good in that it wants to break down complex ideas into similar bits, but also wants to think about the function of certain processes as well.
