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APPROACHES




Rene Descartes + Cartesian Dualism Wundt+ structuralism


mind and
Suggest the
body separate. isolating the structure
ofconsciousness.
·
are
·




·stimulit hatwunde this coworkers experienced Evaluating Wundt


and controlled.
were
always presented in the same order I workis scientific t methods are well



the same instructions all. well controlled no
were
given to
introspection tasks are variables.
-




-Introspection is used
today used early
still in


-mind can be studied as
separate entities. 2008s.


-

They were unreliable as it
wa s that it's approach

John Locke relied on 'non-observable responses'

inherited
We learn from experience and
knowledge Introspection is not
particularly accurate it
·

was not
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would person's mood.
vary depending on a




Charles
Darwin-theory ofevolution ORIGINS OF
·
evolution survival of
+
the
fittest PSYCHOLOGY
Behaviours
Psychology
evolved. ↳ science.
mighthave as a
·




Evaluating the scientific approach

Research
I
in modern claim to be scientific. Has the
psychology can



Wilheim Wundt same aims as natural sciences.


therefore established
Psychology
A
·In 1879 he opened up
the first
experimental laboratory uses scientific methods to do this I




Empirical methods could be
applied to
study mental
of processes. itself as a scientific discipline.
·
He said ifwe break down behaviour into the simplest
components
-
Notall approaches use objective methods. The humanistic

could predictbehaviour. Wundt+introspection approach rejects scientific methods,
preferring
we to focus on



individuals because
study demand
·firstsystematic experimental attemptto study we human
beings
+




the mind into characteristics occur.
by breaking up conscious awareness


basic structures of
thoughts, images sensations.
-




critics his unscientific
say workwas



because he relied on
ppts selfreporting data


and results about
mental processes.

·
This is subjective and will from person to
person.
vary

, APPROACHES




Albert Bandura
mediating factors

Introduced motor
the
approach Attention: person notices reproduction: person replicates concerned,
doing something
someone behaviour


You do not need
something
to learn, not.
experience to
you only noteworthy. or



need to observe the behaviour and it's consequences.


How is it
different to skinner's approach? ·
Retention: The person recalls what
they
observe. Motivation:
person seeks to replicate or avoid the behaviour


The observed.
social
learning theory acknowledges that we have
thought that
they have



meditational motivated reward.
processes known as process. by
Think about whether we choose to imitate a behaviour or not




Bandura's SLT experiment (1963)
SOCIAL Evaluation

3 LEARNING
groups of children watch a
film of an adult
being aggressive
T HE ORY +
towards a model 6000.
Recognises importance of cognitive factors in
learning.
Neither classicaloperant account
conditioning gives an



for learning on
your own


+ The SCT has been
applied to real life behaviours.




So
children
cognitive mediating factors Increases value of approach e.g .


learning from media.

tuses



errorists
·Factors about both




FaridE E E E E E oGaGE .dErdo
a
person thinks before
they experimental non-experimental

choose to imitate.
techniques.

e.g a
teenage boy might be expected to avoid crime



imprisoned. Too little reference
-
his elder brother
after
seeing
to influence of biological factors

on social
learning. Recent research
suggests observational


vicarious reinforcements reinforcement that is not
directly learning is result of mirror neurons in brains


experienced but occurs
through observing someone else
being -Lab experiments are criticised for contrived nature


placed and their reinforced. Demand characteristics in Bandura's
children were in a room with a 6000 doll
study.
behaviour is monitored Too deterministic children the
saying
as are same t
-




relies their environment.
showing imitation. on

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