PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ivan Sechenov, Vladimir Bekhterev, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: Timothy Racine

Document Summary

Major theories so far discussed: wundt"s voluntarism experimental self-observation on an active mind, explanation via psych processes, v lkerpsychologie, etc. William james as influences (not popular today: psychoanalysis psychology is about effects of unconscious processes on behaviour (a lot of people still practice today) Meanwhile also beginning in the 1890s : behaviorism studying things that can be directly measured, trying to do science in objective sense (observable behaviour, behaviourism in pre-revolutionary russia. Called objective psychology: an approach which limits psychology only to study of phenomena that can be directly measured and which employs strictly objective methods (so, a no to introspection and btw animals can"t introspect) Key figures: ivan sechenov, ivan pavlov, and vladimir bekhterev (important for j. [other important people for behaviourism in general = watson, skinner, hull, tolman: pavlov noted james and wundt didn"t think psychology could be a true science, but pavlov felt that physiology certainly could. Ivan pavlov (1849-1936: born to a religious family.