PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psych Lecture Ch 1
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Psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Psychology and its history : behavior- any action an organism does, mental processes- perceptions, thoughts, and feelings, latent (unobserved) constructs; what is going on inside. Goals of psychology: describe, explain, predict, and control. John watson: behaviorism: study of observable behavior, psychology is about what people do, behavior is learned. Eventually, he would take away the meat and ring the bell, but the dogs would continue to salivate. He would then make a loud noise by him and scare him. Eventually, albert became afraid of the white rat and anything soft, white, and fluffy: humans shouldn"t be test subjects. Mary whiton calkins: memory research (includes some techniques still used today, student of william james, but denied phd, 1st female president of apa. Mary cover jones: behavior therapy based on classical conditioning, student of watson, she did the reverse of little albert"s experiment, so she took away a phobia.
