PSY 2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Conditioning, Baruch Spinoza, Psy
19 Oct 2015
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Lecture overview: early contributions, behaviorism, problems for behaviorism, pre-history, we"ll skip the ancient greeks, wikipedia implicates many philosophers: descartes, hume, kant, spinoza, Locke: for our purposes, let"s start with the father of experimental psychology, wunt & introspection, psychology: study of conscious mental events thoughts, feelings, Attention is not a mental act of focusing on part of the perceptual field, for example. Attention is simply an organism"s response to a single stimulus when there are several stimuli present. So, a lack of appeal to the internal: a complete explanation of all behavior in terms of principles such as conditioned responses. All you are doing is looking at how you can change your environment to change all other parts. Language as a complex set of conditioned responses words produced in response to particular objects or situations. Analyzing a sentence as a chain of elements, each serving as a conditional stimulus for the succeeding element: tolman and honzik (1930, three conditions.
