AP Psychology 1.4 History and Approaches

the field of psychology is the use of indirect research

methods psychologist should base all theories on observable behaviour and

hear the potential answers All right i would agree lots

and rolling All right well early psychologist didn't have the

luxury of high tech equipment that could be used to

study the brain Instead the founding fathers of psychology had

to rely on techniques that were often criticized for being

too abstract One such technique was introspection used primarily by

wilhelm foods introspection relied on people considering their own minds

and the way in which they function But such a

process of self reporting was seen as too limited in

its scope and means of gathering information long story short

volunteers in our answer freud meanwhile was all about the

unconscious mind and how it influenced people's behaviour However you

can't exactly observe someone's unconscious mind the whole point is

that they're not directly aware of it not quite what

we're looking for so we can toss right off our

list Carl ashley is that our guy Either He theorized

that memories were stored in a specific part of the

brain a conclusion he came to after inducing localized brain

damage on rats You ran into a slight problem though

he ended up being well a wrong After experimenting on

all those rats he later found out that memories are

stored all over the cortex and slash Lee didn't have

access to the sort of technology necessary to really study

the human brain in the way he wanted teo His

experiments based on observable research were just a bust that

knocks him out of the running Oh and disclaimer no

rats were harmed in the making of this video we

can't say the same for less and we could eliminate

chomsky immediately The bulk of his work came decades after

the debate in question here and he was way nicer

the rats that leaves us with john b watts the

american psychologist who established the psychological school of b behaviorism

As the title suggests behaviorism strongly emphasized the observation of

behavior And when we take a look at the statement

in question we can fight easily Observe that it's the

answer we're looking for Now you might want to turn

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