Lecture 3: The Early 1900s: Psychoanalysis and Behaviourism

One vocabulary flashcard focusing on a key concept from the early 1900s behaviorism and psychoanalysis section.

Hysteria

Loss of function, but not sure why

Psychoanalytic theory

Unconscious thoughts shape feelings and actions

Free Association

Responding to word with whatever comes to mind (Jasper - train)

Dream analysis

Dreams show unconscious thoughts (downing=overworked)

Collective Unconscious (Jung)

Everyone shares a pattern in their mind (every culture has myths and legends)

Archetype (Jung)

Universal symbol (hero fights evil)

Classical conditioning

Learning by connecting two things together (Dog hears bell, expects food)

Principle of reinforcement

Rewarded for something

Operant conditioning

Punishment for doing something

Skinner boxes

Provides food to rat when lever pressed

Cumulative recorders

Device that recorded every time rat pressed lever in a skinner box

Patsimony

Simplicity

Generalizability

Wide applicability

Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud)

Unconscious thoughts shape feeling and actions

Rorschach Test

Seeing monster in inkblot shows state of mind

Little Albert Experiment

Baby conditioned to fear a rat

BF Skinner focused on

operant conditioning

What technique asks patients to respond with first thoughts

free association

What was Jungs major addition to Freuds ideas

Collective unconscious and archetypes

Why did Watson reject introspection

Thought it was speculation not science

Operant vs Classical Condition

Rat acts to get food vs Dog receives food at bell

Who discovered classical condiitoning

Ivan Pavlov