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Early Behaviourism Flashcards

Thorndike, Morgan and Watson

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Who was Romanes’ biggest critic

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Lloyd Morgan - Romanes only based his theories on one subject/ observation

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Lloyd Morgan - why do we need repeated observations?

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Tony- otherwise he looks clever. Repeated observations tell us more.

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who was the first to do systematic experiments on trial and error learning

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Thorndike

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who studied imitation

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Thorndike. found no evidence for it

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Thorndike’s S-R theory?

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stimulus response theory - when behaviour is followed by pleasant consequence, it will be repeated more. reinforcer is ‘stamping in’ connection between the S and R

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who pursued the idea of evolution

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the comparative psychologists in the 1800s

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The law of effect

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Thorndike: satisfaction after a response strengthens the S-R association. early 1900s

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early contemporary psychologists were interested in evolution but what was Pavlov interested in?

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REFLEXES

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structuralism

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prominent in America 1900s - looked at the structure of the mind through INTROSPECTION

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