PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Second Industrial Revolution, Animal Cognition, Edward B. Titchener
18 Sep 2020
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Discriminated against and denied phd by harvard. Prohibited from joining titchener"s experimental psychology organization. Unconscious thought processes and emotional responses to childhood experience will affect later behavior. Painful childhood memories that had been forgotten. Psychology"s goal is to bring unconscious material into conscious. 1870-1914: second industrial revolution; 1914-1945: wwi and wwii == behaviorism awareness to better understand psychological disorder. Defined psychology as scientific study of observable behavior without reference to mental processes. Only focus on behavior, since everyone can observe it rather than being subjectively in the mind of an individual. They see behavior as central, because they study animals which can only study their behavior, and they see human as complex animals. Behaviorism couldn"t explain why some things were learned faster than others, how people learn more complex behaviors like language. When wwii hits, new demands for training complex behavior and improving performance emerge as result of new technology. Behaviorism couldn"t help people to learn things faster.
