PSY 226 Chapter 14: Chapter 14 PSY 226
16 Dec 2022
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Personality dynamics is concerned with the meaning and function of behavior. Whereas psychoanalysis envisioned the mind as filled with unconscious fantasies and early childhood residues, the behaviorists emptied the mind of its contents, even rejecting the very concert of mind. In 1913, john b. watson criticized prevailing psychology as subjective and unreliable; he argued for a science of psychology based on objective measures of observable behaviors and of the external, stimulus situation. The task of psychology, he contended, was to (1) predict the response, given the stimulus; (2) identify the stimulus, given the response; and (3) predict the change in the response, given a change in the stimulus. Behaviorism was also strongly influenced by the ideas of darwin. Prior to the darwinian period, humans were perceived as intelligent and good , while non-humans were considered evil and merely governed by instinctive urges.
