PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Walter Mischel, Albert Bandura, Donald Broadbent
18 Mar 2013
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John b watson: radical behaviorism: began with methodological behaviourism: we have to focus as a science on things that we can publicly observe. And behaviour is the only thing that meets that criteria: cannot rely on the truth of introspective reports of the contents of somebody else"s unconsciousness. If we rely on overt, observable behaviour (including speech) safe, everyone can repeat and get same results: psychology has to be rooted in publicly observable, verifiable behaviour , methodological behaviourism (the method we should use): recording, observing behaviour. Studies demonstrating the power of learning (in relation to behaviour): pavlov: classical conditioning, e. l. thorndike instrumental learning. Animals in puzzle box: if behaviour was followed by reward/satisfying consequence, it became more frequent. if followed by unsatisfying consequence/punishment, became less frequent. Mathematical equation which describes how classical + instrumental learning takes place understand more fully how things work.
