PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Albert Bandura, B. F. Skinner, Little Albert Experiment
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Chapter 1: introduction to psychology; twentieth-century approaches: psychoanalysis: psychology of the unconscious. Belief that people"s behaviours based on unconscious desires & conflicts. Developed psychoanalysis- aimed to resolve unconscious conflicts: behaviourism: study of observable behaviour. Psychological research should only focus on behaviour you can observe. Proposed research findings from the study of animals could explain human behaviour. Found that dogs could learn to associate a bell with an automatic behaviour such as salivating for food (classical conditioning) B. watson conducted little albert experiment demonstrating that children (people) Albert bandura described learning by social observation in children & several species of primates: humanistic psychology. Humanistic psychologists- person has capacity for personal growth & the freedom to choose his/her destiny & positive qualities. Abraham maslow theory of motivation that consists of hierarchy of needs. Client-centered therapy- which said people are innately good: cognitive psychology: revitalization of study of the mind. Ulric neisser coined the term cognitive psychology as the study of information processing.
