PSY 3121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Digestion, Wilhelm Wundt, Neurology
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Behaviourism was unlife functionalism in the respect that it wanted no modification of the. Behaviorism: antecedent influences past and no compromise with it. It was promoted by american john b watson. The tents were simple, direct and bold. Called for a scientific psychology that dealt only with observable acts that could be described objectively in terms of stimulus and response. It rejected all mentalistic concepts and terms and the concept of consciousness. Like all founders, watson organized and promoted ideas and issues that were already acceptable and in use. He brought together objectivism, mechanism, animal psychology and functional psychology, none of these were new. Recognition for the need of greater objectivity had a long history. Auguste comte founded the movement of positivism that emphasized facts, positive knowledge. The only valid knowledge is that which is social in nature and objectively observable which rules out introspection.
