AP Psychology 1.2 History and Approaches

austrian scientist and hear your pencil and well first up

is b f skinner an american psychologist and be a

theorist America people american Well that's enough to know he's

not our guy Let's Take it one step further Skinner

was known for his work with operate conditioning which last

we checked doesn't sound like psycho analysis Also american feel

helmut Well he's not our guy either While he was

the first to establish psychology is a legitimate scientific discipline

He definitely didn't work much with the unconscious mind Why

Because flint was best known for employing self reflective introspection

and introspection is the sort of thing you have tio

you know consciously do How about see jean pierre jai

Well p j was a swiss developmental psychologist Best known

for his work with children and his theory of cognitive

development This theory divided children's cognitive development into four distinct

stages throughout their adolescence an interesting theory but not what

we're looking for here and nope it's Not either John

b watson was an american psychologist who established the psychological

school of behaviorism not psycho analysis that leaves us with

the sigmund freud Freud develops Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic tool

in school of thought in psychology His theories were based

on the idea that behavior is affected by thoughts and

believes that people have but that they aren't thinking about

it In the moment they keep those thoughts in the

unconscious mind What does that mean Well if you had

a bad experience in your childhood it could still be

in rinsing your actions at this very moment without you

even realizing it Suddenly a lot of things make sense