People to remember (Lecture 5: The rise and fall of behaviorism)

Question 1

Boring

Answer 1

“Intelligence is what the test measures”

so you never know for sure if you measure the correct thing

Question 2

Bridgman

Answer 2

Physicist who wants to save humanity from revolutions by operationalisation: attaching concepts to measuring procedures

Question 3

Pavlov

Answer 3

Classical conditioning

Question 4

Thorndike

Answer 4

Was Pavlov’s student, inspired by him

Operant conditioning (puzzle boxes)

Question 5

John B. Watson

Answer 5

Completely disagrees with introspection!

Psychologie = behavior analysis in terms of punishment and rewards!!!

There is no unconsciousness

Believes in tabula rasa

Question 6

B.F. Skinner

Answer 6

Radical behaviorist: wanted ban on mentalistic terms (niet behavioristische) in science

• Human is a mechanisme van input en output (Turing machine, conditioning)
• What can’t be measured should be left out
• Free will is an illusion
• There is no mind-body problem, because there is no mind (or it is in the brain)

Question 7

Chomsky

Answer 7

Killed behaviorism –> started cognitive revolution
Showed flaws of Skinner’s theories in his work.
(He was probably more of a rationalist, because he believed in the LAD)

Question 8

Alan Turing

Answer 8

Created a machine that can do calculations, proved that machines can handle everything that is calculable

Computer analogy

Turing machine

Question 9

Neiser

Answer 9

Book: cognitive psychology