PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gestalt Psychology, Humanistic Psychology, Classical Conditioning
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Gestalt psychology amazing ability to acquire and maintain stable percepts in a noisy world. : trying to understand the laws underlying our. Also humanistic psychology was born largely as a direct counter- response to freud"s focusing on the positive aspects of humanity. The hole is more the parts filter input to make it what we know. Shunned all discussion of any psychological concept that could not be directly and objectively measured and/or manipulated. Psychology became the study of the association between stimuli (any object or situation) and responses (how an organism behaved) Explained classical conditioning through his studies of salivary reflex on dogs. Asserted that psychology should restrict to the objective, experimental study of the relations between environmental events and human behaviour. Revealed how rewards affect behaviour by conducting laboratory studies on animals. Can"t see, but learn from the produced reaction. E. g. if the invisible animal is big, all the people will be affected by it.
