PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Random Assignment, Confounding, Blind Experiment

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Module 1. 2: structuralism and fundamentalism, beginnings of psychology: Edward kitchener: believed that mental experiences were made up of a limited number of sensations, the different sensations can form and create complex compounds, James was: functionalism, according to the evolutionary psychology, our brains and the physical and social behaviours have been shaped by environments that our ancestors encountered, rise of behaviourism: Edwin twitmyer: classical conditioning, ivan pavlov, behaviourism, john b watson, Began to believe that all behaviours could ultimately be explained through conditioning, Believed that only observable changes in the environment and behaviour were appropriate for scientific studies, Believed so much in the power of experience and so little in the power of genetics: b. f. skinner: Believed that psychology was the study of behaviour and not of the unobservable mind, If our behaviour is controlled by external reward and the satisfaction of motivational drives, that gives little room for freewill: humanistic psychology:

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