PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frontal Lobe, Wilhelm Wundt, Confounding
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Learning objectives: describe the historical contributions to cognitive psychology made by the first psychologists, psychoanalysis and behaviorism. Hysteria and hypnotism: psychoanalysis: developed from a mental health perspective, while studying the case of a woman with hysteria, freud and his mentor, dr. joseph breuer developed a theory about unexpressed emotions. Influence of psychoanalysis: unconscious mind and importance of biology and society. Behaviorism: between the controversy surrounding structuralism and the spectacle of psychoanalysis, psychology needed something more scientific. Ivan pavlov described what would become the ground work for behaviorism: explain why and how psychology started to move away from behaviorism toward a cognitive approach. Tolman believed behavior is not just a result of cause and effect, it is purposeful. Noam chomsky did not believe language could be simply a result of stimulus and response. He argued that behaviorists were using laboratory findings in animals as an analogy for verbal behavior but there was absolutely no evidence to support it.
