PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes -Jacques Loeb, Classical Conditioning, Animal Rights
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Behaviorism is one of the most dominant approaches to psychology. - in the states. Behaviorists: john b. watson and b. f. skinner both argued that behaviour should be explained without recourse to either introspection of physiology. But ivan pavlov and karl lashley believed that physiology and psychology we complementary. Although behaviorists differed from one another in many ways, what they all had in common is just that their name suggests; they regarded behavior as the only proper subject for psychology and rejected subjective experience. Animal behavior is something that the psychologist can only observe and comparative psychology implicitly promoted the objective observation of behaviour. Was awarded a nobel prize in 1904 for his work on the physiology of the digestive system. Became famous for his so called conditioned reflexes. The doctrine of conditioned reflexes was one of the foundations of materialism in biology. Materialism is the doctrine that physical events constitute the only reality.
