PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mary Cover Jones, Social Learning Theory, Albert Bandura
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Locate psychology of learning within the history of psychology and. Review major concepts and applications of mainstream learning. Social learning theory (albert bandura is principal founder; Pavlov was a physiologist--he stumbled into research on associative learning and developed idea of classical conditioning . The legacy of edward thorndike: the law of effect (1911) Legacy of b. f. skinner (1938, the behavior of organisms) Idea of contingencies of reinforcement built upon thorndike"s concepts. The history of modern psychology began with wilhelm wundt, who founded what came to be seen as a school of psychology focused on the structure of consciousness, the building blocks of perception. Proponents of this point of view were called. Structuralists, led by wundt, studied the elements of perception ( atoms of the mind ) by using the methodology of. Psychology was revolutionized by john watson in 1920"s, who articulated a radical philosophy of psychology called behaviorism. Reject structuralism bc you can"t study them.
