PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Ivan Sechenov, Karl Lashley, Rosalie Rayner

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: Kathleen Slaney

Document Summary

Final exam (30%) due one week after last lecture (tuesday april 15, 12pm) Format similar to midterm (a few short answer and an essay) Connection between consciousness and mental stuff behaviour (functionalism) Subject matter of psychoanalysis (unconscious vs. conscious psychiatry and medical model; separate going on ) Funcitonal aspects of consciousness in relation to behaviour and then behaviour replacing consciousness altogether in psychology. Russian behaviourism objective psychology: an approach which limits scientific psychology to the study of only those phenomena that can be directly measured and which employs strictly objective (i. e. , physiological) methods. Key figures: ivan sechenov, ivan pavlov, and vladimir bechterev. Born to religious family (father wanted to become priest) Read darwin"s work and was transformed science. Professor of physiology at st. petersburg"s military academy. Operated on living animals in which a gastric fistula (channel leading from the digestive organs to the outside of the body; diversion of gastric juices) is inserted so that digestive processes could be studied.