PSYC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Little Albert Experiment, B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning Chamber

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 200
• Professor: Kathleen Hughes

Document Summary

Eventually the animal would press a button that would release food. And eventually will learn to press the button in order to get food. Psychoanalyst vs behaviourist: you spent all your money on the latest iphone. Why: psychoanalyst, doing it to t in, avoid judgement from your parents of skipping class, behaviourist, good experiences in class make you want to come back, anxious if you miss class. We just need someone to listen to us: through self- re ection, everyone can be self - actualized just by being listened to. Applied psychology: in the 60"s , 70"s, psychology was considered a clinical practice, therapeutic practice, psychoanalysis, behaviourism, humanism. Cognitive psychology: cognition, decision making through processing, jean piaget- how kids look at things and how kids make decisions. Evolutionary psychology: functionalism, darwin, survival, reproduction, nature, if there is something in our society, it is because at one point it was adaptive or functional in some point in our time.