PSYC 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scottish Common Sense Realism, Rosalie Rayner, Little Albert Experiment
30 Mar 2016
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No need to know exact dates, but know names, ideas, significance, contributions etc. Look at videos posted on moodle (only responsible for those shown in class) Consciousness is not private (we all experience the same things) Psychology shifted towards a jamsian and behaviourist psychology. Wanted to study experimental psychology at u of chicago (using an introspectionist method) Watson was not good at introspection, and was nervous around humans. Watson was hired by james baldwin at johns hopkins u to become the editor of the. James baldwin needed to leave the u because he was arrested. Watson believed that animal psychology/comparative psychology was not taken that seriously, so he used his position in the u to change that. 1913 he gave a talk on his views to his dissatisfaction with introspectionist psychology and how animal psychology is a good form of psychology, and he published it in the. Psychology review and calls it psychology as the behaviourist views it (watson,
