PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism, Little Albert Experiment
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Early 1900s a resistance to the dominant paradigms in psychology of the day: introspection & freudian psychoanalysis. Psychologists started to try to make psychology more scientific, experimental. They began to focus only on observable aspects of human experience -> focus on behavior. A neutral stimulus can become a conditioned stimulus by being paired with an already established cs. Psychology as the behaviourist views it is a purely objective natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods. The behaviorist, in his attempts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute. John watson thought that classical conditioning could account for a wide. Watson & the rise of behaviourism variety of phenomena event emotions. Studied babies and identified 3 us-ur emotional relationships. They noticed babies are loud and fearful when they are dropped/falling. They experience rage response when they are restraint.
