PSYC 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Advantageous, Sandwich Board, Hadley Cantril
11 Mar 2013
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Constructing the social world: behaviorists led by john watson heralded the situationist tradition in psychology, john watson described the role that situational factors play in shaping human behaviour. He boasted through appropriate manipulation of environment and reinforcement history that he could dictate a child"s future career. Only by knowing or correctly guessing the subjective meaning of the events could we determine why the individuals behaved as they did. In short, we must be aware that objective accounts of stimuli, responses, and reinforcements, and objective speci cation of the linkages among them, will rarely be suf cient for our purposes. We need to know how the ps themselves perceive these. Objective events, and what they believe about the relevant linkages among them: people like clark hull, b. f. skinner (behaviourists) typically applied their methods on animals, which future discouraged questions about subjective meaning.
