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Lamarckism
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Teleological theory - purposefull event towards an end.
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Spencer-Bain Principle
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It is the idea that the ability to learn is a trait that evolved, both in humans and other animals. The mechanism of learning involves associations, so it borrows from Alexander Bain. Because mental ability can be inherited in this view, it is used to explain why humans are smarter than other animals. It is setting up a genetic basis for intelligence and mental ability.
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Neobehaviorism
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all behaviorism after Watson; any softening or changing of Watson's views on psychology as a science of observable behavior. The neobehaviorists justified theorizing about the data by using the model of science from the logical positivists, whereas Watson did not agree with theorizing about the data, because he was a positivist, not a logical positivist. Any discuassion of intervening variables (latent learning, cognigtive maps, drives, habit strenght, incentive motivation) is theorizing about data
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Neobehaviorism for dummies
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Behaviorism=No Mind, everything conditioned. Watson said we can control/predict behavior.
Neobehaviorism=Includes Mind but the learning aspect of it is equated with performance, where one can take place even is the other is not. |
