PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviorism, Edward C. Tolman, Organism
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Is the scientific study of how people"s affect, behaviour, cognition are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Involves observation, measurement in quantitative data, careful description, analyze data, draw conclusions based on evidence. Emotion response to a certain environment, stimulus. Thoughts you may or may not have during that stimulus. Trying to mentalize what others are trying to do. The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the world around them. Began in the states in the 1900s. Famous for ignoring the role of conscious perception. Argue that all behaviours can be concluded as the stimulus and response model. Even complex response acts can be reduced to reaction of what people are thinking. All instincts, emotions, and thinking: learned associations. Unobserved factors within an organism that actually determines the behaviour. Concepts must be measurable in objective terms. Focuses on the role of intervening variables. Recognizes that human does not mean machines.
