PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Radical Behaviorism, Observational Learning, Social Forces
23 Oct 2016
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Focus attention on forces in the individual"s external environment that influence behaviour. Chapter eleven - introduction to the environmental strategy. Behaviour are assumed to arise primarily in response to external conditions. Psychoanalytic = focuses on drives (forces within the individual that produce personality characteristics and behaviour. Dispositional strategy = focuses on characteristics intrinsic to the individual. Representational strategy = focuses on private events (mental representations and operations) Each person is viewed as the product of continuous complex interaction between the individual and an ever-changing environment. Behaviourism: the roots of the environmental strategy the environmental strategy grew out of behaviourism = a school of thought within psychology that can be traced back to the writings of john watson (1924) Watson believed that psychology should be a natural science, in the tradition of physics and biology. He made no distinction between human and nonhuman behaviour. It takes the extreme position that only overt behaviours and external stimuli should be studied.
