PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Perception, Margaret Floy Washburn

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Maggie Parker (Ma)

Document Summary

John b. watson (classical (passive) conditioning - get food, ring bell) B. f skinner (operant conditioning - do an action to get output) dismissed introspection. Add 2 key elements: measured observations and experiments. Father of psychology -- authored principles of psychology. Studied what function human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors served and how they helped our. 4th century b. c. e aristotle - observation/questioning to understand body-psyche relationship. Mary whiton calkins (1863-1930)- 1st women in psychology denied phd. Wrote the animal mind (studied with titchener but barred from experimental psychology organization) Behaviorism- scientific study of observable behavior w/o reference to mental processes. Freudian psychology - unconscious thought and emotional responses to childhood affect later behavior. Humanistic psychology - carl rogers and abraham maslow need for love and acceptance satisfied. 1960 - cognitive revolution - returned to interest in mental processes (neuroscience) and focuses on brain activity underlying mental activity. Mental processes - internal, subjective experience inferred from behavior.