PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Edwin Holt, Clark L. Hull, Percy Williams Bridgman
7 Apr 2017
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Easier to extinguish fears if we understand the process behind it. Behaviourists often disagreed with each other on essential terms learning, reinforcement, discrimination + extinction. Agreement importance of linking concepts to experimental procedures. Importance of establishing empirical meanings for scientific terms. Operationism: programmatic attempt to tie scientific terms to measurement/ operations of an experiment ex: hunger drive food, etc measured in hours without. Challenged the idea of absolute meanings or intrinsic meanings assumption = all meaning is relative. Criticism ^ described nothing new provided a label for a practice that had long been in use + intuitively appealing idea that measurement points to something beyond itself. Regretted the way it sometime became a dogma. Neobehaviorists largely in accord with related movement = logical positivism strong emphasis on precision + clarity. Logical positivism = critical empiricism/ scientific empiricism many concepts = devoid of scientific meaning because they cannot be verified or confirmed.
