Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Little Albert Experiment, Albert Bandura, Edward Thorndike

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Natalie J Allen

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Unconscious: hypothesized repository of thoughts, feelings, and sensations outside human awareness: thought in some theories to have a strong bearing on human behaviour, state where information is not easily accessible to conscious awareness. The belief that people"s behaviours are based on their unconscious desires and conflicts. Freud developed psychoanalysis, that aimed to resolve unconscious conflicts. Psychoanalytic theory: psychological theory that human mental processes are influenced by the competition among unconscious forces to come into awareness. Behaviourism: branch of psychological thought arguing that psychology should study only directly observable behaviours rather than abstract mental processes. Early behaviourists tended to focus on relationships between stimuli and responses. Stimuli: elements of the environment that trigger changes in our internal or external states. Responses: the way we react to stimuli. Edward thorndike: proposed research findings from the study that animals could help explain human behaviours.