PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operational Definition, Statistical Inference, Scatter Plot
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The problem with intuition and common sense. Good to e(cid:454)press a(cid:374)ger i(cid:374) a good wa(cid:455), do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:373)ore a(cid:374)gr(cid:455) People can be more left or ride brain sided. You can recall stuff under hypnosis but same in a good interview. Behaviors are based on unconscious desires and conflicts. The modern fields of applied psychology and behaviorism are direct descents of functionalism. John b waston- little albert experiment, children can be classically conditioned. Behaviorism: psychological research should focus only on behavior you can observe. Bf skinner- operant conditioning, used reinforcement, positive and negative. Albert bandura- social observation: the 195(cid:1004)"s: oppositio(cid:374) to psychoanalytic theory and behaviorism. Putting the psyche back in psychology: the return of cognition. The role of mental processes in how people process information, develop language, solve problems and think. Cognitive psychologists compared the human mid to a computer. Apply scientific methods to study internal mental events. Ethnocentrism- viewing ones own group as superior and as the standard for judging.
