The history of Psychology (PS111)

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1. What did Skinner say about the mind?

  • He dismissed it and regarded the behaving person as an "empty organism" that could be shaped.
  • He thought that the mind had a strong tendency towards sandwiches
  • He thought it existed and you couldn't control someone
  • He thought the mind was set and no one could shape it.
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2. What did Pavlov demonstrate?

  • A fundamental stimulus - response learning principle
  • That dogs can be taught
  • That dogs are more intelligent than previously thought
  • A fundamental stimulus - a principle of behavioural theory

3. What did Alan Baddeley do?

  • Conditioned a kid called Albert to fear a white rat.
  • Did an experiment on himself proving that there is no such thing as STM
  • Formulated some clever experiments which shed light on how STM is structured.
  • Created experiments demonstrating the unreliability of memory for past events (implications for eye witness testimony)

4. What did Watson think psychology should be?

  • The objective study of behaviour and the stimuli which produces such behaviour.
  • The study of brain chemicals
  • The study of behaviour
  • The study of Society

5. What did Pavlov do an experiment on?

  • Created experiments demonstrating the unreliability of memory for past events (implications for eye witness testimony)
  • Operant Conditioning
  • Classical Conditioning
  • Conditioned a kid called Albert to fear a white rat.
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