PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Utopian And Dystopian Fiction, Little Albert Experiment, Drill Instructor
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Psychologist, his early history had to do with animal studies. Influenced by pavwa (trained dogs to salivate when bell was rung. So, watson thought humans weren"t very different. Ignore what people think or say, look only at what they do. John watson wanted to move psych out of the laboratory and into the real world (education, advertisement) Miller-lyer illusion --- >---< (mental process distort) Wanted psych to be taken more seriously as a science (introspection, mediums) Only study publicly observable phenomenon was the only was to make it a science . Memory, perception, decision making should not be studied in psych. Little albert study kid afraid of anything white and fuzzy: b. f. skinner. Largest proponent and most important of behaviorism. Took watson"s ideas to the extreme and forced them onto the entire field of psych. The entire field of psych became behaviorists.
