T V 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Decision Rule, Little Albert Experiment, Psychopathology
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John watson"s paradoxical struggle to explain freud summary. John watson was fascinated by discoveries of psychoanalysis, but rejected freud"s central concept of unconscious as incompatible with behaviorism. Watson borrowed concepts from classical conditioning to explain freud"s discoveries little. Albert is interpreted not only in context of pavlovian conditioning, but also as psychoanalytically inspired attempt to capture simplified analogues of adult phobic behavior. Behaviorist concept used to compete with freud"s concepts of displacement and unconscious transference of emotion. Watson surprisingly emerges as psychologist who popularizes freud. Sigmund freud and john watson are two of most important individuals in 20th century psychology rarely have been considered together. Freud"s ideas were increasingly penetrating american culture at the time, roughly between. 1909 and mid 1920s that watson was developing behaviorism. Watson was ambivalent about freud and subordinated his interest in psychoanalysis to great cause. In 1909 freud made only visit to america gave lectures at clark university.
