PSY 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: B. F. Skinner, Radical Behaviorism, Sigmund Freud
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Conscious and unconscious behavioral determinants: to what degree are people aware of the causes of their conduct. Conversely, in developing their theories and in their study, trait and cognitive theorists rely heavily on self-reporting data. They believe, for example, that people will recognize and report their social anxiety level, or how they organize information in their minds. Such psychologists, however, are hedging from an extreme stance on this matter. Cognitive psychologists are gradually realizing that the processing of most information takes place at a point below consciousness. Humanistic philosophers also take a stance on this topic on the middle ground. Th is an old topic of psychology which has arisen from much older philosophical and theological discussions. On one side we find theoreticians of the approach to behavioral / social learning called radical behaviorists. On this subject probably the most vocal was b.
