PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Clark L. Hull, Rebar, Contiguity
22 Jan 2020
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Edwin gutherie (1886-1959) -didn"t accept things like pavlov"s law of reinforcement or thorndike"s law of effect -1 trial learning (only one principle- Contiguity): easy to understand but has its drawbacks. When a stimulus is paired with a response just once, a stimulus- response pattern/association is formed= association=learning. Clark hull (1884-1952): dominated american psychology for a period of time -more sophisticated and complex than watson"s behaviourism -committed to objective behaviourist psychology: no place for consciousness, purpose, etc. Fundamental laws of behaviour need to be expressed in precise, mathematical language - Simple observation no controlling just observing what happens. Formulations determine beforehand: establish postulates and then come up with hypotheses and experimentally test them used intervening variables, they are different than tolman"s: his are physiological variable (different kinds of intervening variable) 17 postulates and 100 theories, very complex and very different -drives- what motivates/causes behavior.
