What is ‘Hysteria’?
- Temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions
- Usually as a result of emotionally upsetting experiences
Who was Sigmund Freud?
Believed hysteria caused by painful unconscious experiences
Who was John Watson?
- Developed behaviourism
- Predict and control behaviour through the study of observable behaviour
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
- Studied the physiology of digestion
- Founded classical conditioning (stimulus–response)
What is ‘Response’?
Action or physiological change elicited by a stimulus
Who was B.F. Skinner?
- Developed the Skinner Box/Conditioning Chamber to explain learning and founded operant conditioning
- Principle of Reinforcement
- Free will was an illusion
What is ‘Reinforcement’?
Consequences of behaviour that determine whether it will be more likely that the behaviour will occur again
What is the ‘Principle of Reinforcement’?
Any behaviour that is rewarded will be repeated and any behaviour that isn’t won’t
Who was Max Wertheimer?
Founded induced motion phenomena
What are illusions?
Errors of perception, memory, or judgment in
which subjective experience differs from objective reality
