PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Albert Bandura, Edward Thorndike, Little Albert Experiment
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The belief that peoples behaviours are based on their unconscious desires and conflicts. Freud developed psychoanalysis, that aimed to resolve unconscious conflicts. Behaviourism: psychological research should only focus on behaviour you can observe. Proposed research findings from the study of animals could help explain human behaviour. Found that dogs could learn to associate a bell with an automatic behaviour such as salivating for food. He (cid:272)ondu(cid:272)ted the (cid:862)little al(cid:271)ert(cid:863) experiment demonstrating that children could be classically conditioned. He developed operant conditioning to shape behaviour. He described learning by social observation in children and several species of primates. Humanistic psychologists stressed that a person has a capacity for personal growth and the freedom to choose his or her destiny, and positive qualities. De(cid:448)eloped (cid:862)(cid:272)lient-(cid:272)entered therapy(cid:863), (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h said that people are innately good. Developed a theory of motivation that consists of a hierarchy of needs. Cognitive psychology- revitalization of study of the mind.
