Ch 10 (Exam 2) Flashcards
1
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John Watson
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- founder of behaviourism
2
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Little Albert
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- infant taught by John Watson to fear white rat
3
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Mary Cover Jones
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- first to conduct behaviour therapy
- eliminated fears of boy named Peter
4
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behaviour therapy
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- application of learning principles to change maladaptive behaviour
5
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Karl Lashley
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- early behaviourist at odds with Watson
- challenged claim that reflex arc is basic unit of behaviour
6
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law of mass action
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- learning efficiency is a function of mass of cortex
- Karl Lashley
7
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equipotentiality
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- all parts of cortex contribute equally to learning
- Karl Lashley
8
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William Mcdougall
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- persistent critic of John Watson
- formulated instinct theory of behaviour
9
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Watson’s view on instincts
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- prominent role (1914)
- only meaningful for animals (1919)
- skeptical, socially conditioned (1924)
- concept eliminated (1926)
10
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thought processes (Watson)
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- reduced to implicit motor behaviour
- thoughts = speaking to ourselves
- thought became tangible, so measurable and subject to scientific analysis
11
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emotions (Watson)
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- emotions can be fully accounted for in terms of:
1. objective stimulus situation
2. overt bodily response
3. internal physiological changes
12
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3 basic emotional responses in infants
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- fear
- rage
- love
