PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Model Organism, Psych, Clinical Psychology
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He broke down consciousness into its basic elements, just like chemistry. William did purpose vs. a description of consciousness (function) Criticism when experiencing something (breaking down conscious experience) Not everybody"s conscious experience is the same. Schools of thought battle continues: what is the root cause of behavior: psychoanalytic theory: unconscious determinants of behavior trying to igure out what people are thinking and why you"re thinking what you"re thinking. According to freud nobody knows what causes behaviors, and unaware of why we do what we do. We are simply motivated by unconscious sexual desires. There was no way to prove that freud was right or wrong since were unaware of our unconscious thinking: behaviorism. Study of observable behavior : observable vs unobservable processes like consciousness, behavior is an observable process and also any overt response/activity, stimulant (clap) response (blink) stimulus-response, aka what causes behavior, watsons form of behaviorism. 2: might not be similar since animals brains are diferent them humans.
