PS102 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Selection Bias, Binocular Disparity, Longwave
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Sigmund freud (1856 1939) the belief that people"s behaviours are based on their unconscious desires and conflicts. Freud developed psychoanalysis that aimed to resolve unconscious conflicts. Psychological research should only focus on behaviour you can observe. Freud is about unconsciousness and skinner is about observable behaviour. Proposed research findings from the study of animals could help explain human behaviour. Proposed law of effect (suggests that we creatures engage in a behaviour more often when we have satisfying/rewarding consequences) Found that dogs could learn to associate a bell with an automatic behaviour such as salivating for food. Conducted the little albert experiment demonstrating that children (people) could be classically conditioned: in the experiment, the child was trained to be afraid of furry animals. Described learning by social observation in children & several species of primates. E. g. bonobo chimpanzee observing behaviour of an adult.
