PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Expectancy Theory, Total Relation, Douglas Spalding
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The w rzburg school convinced many that the conditions which influence our behaviour in thinking and choice are not present in consciousness. For example, titchener repeated many of the w rzburg experiments and found sensory contents of the kind that fit his associationist theory. But this dispute, in which introspection under lab conditions failed to produce agreement about observed data, led many to question introspection. Behaviourism: by emphasizing that little occurred between the stimulus and the reaction in their experiments, the w rzburg school shifted the emphasis from the contents of consciousness to conduct or response. Their theory that much goes on below the threshold of consciousness reinforced psychoanalytic ideas but also set the stage for behaviourism. Charles darwin & evolutionary doctrine (1809-1882: in 1859 darwin published the origin of species by natural selection. While the evolutionary concept existed long before darwin, he was the first to popularize it and introduce evidence for it.
