Historical Behaviourists Flashcards
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What did Charles Darwin do?
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- Studied diversity across species on flora and fauna
- Accepted that animals anatomical features are designed to perform specific functions
- Studies sexual selection
2
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What did George Romanes do?
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- Laid the foundation for comparative psychology, hypothesising similarity between humans and animals in cognitive processes
3
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What did Conwy Lloyd Morgan do?
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- Created Morgan’s Canon which is the principle that behaviour of an animal shouldn’t be interpretative in complex psychological terms if it can be simpler
- Avoided anthropometrism
4
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What did Edward Thorndike do?
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- Looked at the law of effects in cats by experimenting their escapes from puzzle boxes
- Showed intelligent behaviour can be explained by trial and error
5
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What did John Watson do?
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- Believed human conditioning comes as a result of inner reactions to stimuli
6
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What did B.F. Skinner do?
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- Developed the theory of operant conditioning
7
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What did Konrad Lorenz do?
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- Researched imprinting by experimenting on goslings
8
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What did Niko Tinbergen do?
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- Created the 4 questions for the explanation of behaviours
- 4 questions: Mechanism, Ontogeny, Adaptive Value and Phylogeny (MOAP)
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What did Ivan Pavlov do?
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- Experimented on conditioned reflexes
- Trained a dog to salivate at the sound of a buzzer
