PSY305H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Associationism, Epicurus, Behaviorism
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Assumptions: any knowledge that does not come from the outside is invalid and what you think about yourself is invalid because someone cannot check it, according to behaviourism if someone cannot check if it is true then it is not valid as data, personality is a sum total of one"s behaviours, causes of behaviour can be observed as directly as the behaviour itself, you do something because your behaviour is rewarding you, it is contained to ones environment. Philosophical roots of behaviourism: empiricism (cid:224) everything comes from our experience, our mind is blank and then the reality sets an imprint into our mind, locke (cid:224) the newborn mind is a blank slate, ready to be written upon by experience, the idea that we all are equal (cid:224) the difference between people is what we have been exposed to, associationism, two things or ideas become mentally associated together if they are repeatedly experiences as a close together in time, ex.
