chapter 9 Flashcards
Watsons behaviourism
The school is concerned with observable behaviour defined in objective terms
Developed theory of animals behaviour based on concept of tropism
Jacques loeb
Forced moment toward the source of stimulation
Tropism
Willard Small
first to use a rat maze as a method for studying learning
Margaret Washburn
Wrote first book on comparative psych published in America called the animal mind
A horse whose amazing intellectual feats were due to unconscious curing by the owner
Clever Hans
Theory of learning that focuses on associations and responses proposed by Edward Thorndike
Connectionism
The response is more likely in a situation bc response produced satisfaction in situations
Law of effect
law of exercise
use of response in situation strengthens the bond between response and situation
Ivan Pavlo
Discovered conditioned reflex advocated an objective approach to psychological phenomena
Stimulus reflex
Conditioned reflex
unconditioned reflex
Stimulus elicits response independent of it’s relation to another stimulus
Conducted pioneering research on motor reflexes advocated objective approach to psychological phenomena
Vladimir bekherew
John watson
founder of behaviourism
Little Albert
Infant taught by john watson to fear white rat