What is inateness
Mental processes arise from the brain
What is empiricism
Knowledge comes from experience
John Locke conclusions
Tabula Rosa: The mind starts as a blank slate
Knowledge comes from sensation and reflection
What did Wilhelm Wundt believe in/establish
The first psychology laboratory, structuralism, introspection, and avoiding stimulus error
What did F.C, Donders believe in/establish
Mental chronometry, reaction time, and subtration method
What did Herman yon Ebbinghaus believe in/establish
Scientific study of memory, forgetting curve, saving score, spacing effect
What is behaviorist psychology
A systematic approach that started in the early 1900s
What does the systematic approach of behaviorist psychology view behavior as
Either reflexes produced by responses
to stimuli in an experiment or a consequence of prior experience
Who is John Watson in terms of behaviorism
Founder of behaviorism who focused on observable behaviors and believed mental processes are not scientific
Who is Ivan Pavlov in terms of behaviorism
Researched reflexes, established simple association as well as classical conditioning
Who is B.F. Skinner in terms of behaviorism
Developed the “Sinner box” or conditioning pattern and established operant conditioning
What does behaviorism fail to do
Adequately explain complex behaviors
What does behaviorism think of mental constructs
They cannot be objectively observed and thus not scientifically studied
