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Chapter 9 Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences Toward a Science Of Chapter 9 Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences Dr. Rick Grieve PSY 495 Western Kentucky University 1 Toward a Science of Behavior • Background – Functionalism was more evolutionary than revolutionary – Behaviorism revolutionary • John B. Watson • These ideas did not originate with Watson; they had been developing for some time in psychology in biology • Major forces that were brought together to form behaviorism included: – Philosophical tradition of objectivism and mechanism – Animal psychology – Functional psychology • Insistence on objectivity can be traced back to Descartes and, probably more importantly, Compte, who created positivism 2 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism • Most important antecedent to Behaviorism was animal psychology – Grew out of evolutionary theory and led to attempts to demonstrate: • Existence of a mind in lower organisms • The continuity between animal and human minds • Jaques Loeb (1859-1924) – Did animal research – Postulated that animal behavior was influenced by tropism • Involuntary movement in response to a stimulus – Did not totally reject animal consciousness, especially in humans and other animals at the top of the evolutionary scale – If the actions of lower organisms can be explained without reference to mental events, why cannot human behavior be explained in the same way 3 Chapter 9 Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences 1 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism Cont. • Rats, Ants, and the Animal Mind – Willard Small • Introduced the rat maze in 1900 at Clark University • StdidbStudied be hav ior, bu t a lso int erpret ed dth the b eh avi or in terms of consciousness, writing about the rats’ images and ideas 4 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism – Charles Henry Turner • Zoologist • Interested in and published articles on comparative and animal studies • “A Preliminary Note on Ant Behavior” (1906) – Margaret Floy Washburn • Taught animal psychology at Cornell • The Animal Mind (1908) –1st comparative psychology textbook published in US – Last book to discuss animal consciousness and introspection by analogy 5 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism – Difficult to be an animal psychologist – Clever Hans the Clever Horse • Supposedly could add and subtract, use fractions and decimals, read, spell, tell time, distinguish among colors, identifyyj objects, and p erform p henomenal feats of memory 6 Chapter 9 Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences 2 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism • Turns out that Hans did not know anything that is owner didn’t know • Illustrates that need and value of an experimental approach to the study of animal behavior 7 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism • Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949) – Called his experimental approach to the study of associations connectionism • Approach to learning that is based on connections between situations and responses – Law of effect • If the response to a stimulus is followed by a reward, the connection is strengthened – “stamped in” • If the response is followed by a punishment, it is weakened – “stamped out” – Law of exercise • Any response to a situation, other things being equal, will be more strongly connected with the situation in proportion to the number of times it has been connected with the situation 8 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism – Developed these laws from using the Puzzle Box • Trial-and-error-learning – Learning based on the repetition of response tendencies that lead to success – Disagreed with behaviorism • he wanted to keep the mentalistic qualities in psychology 9 Chapter 9 Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences 3 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism Cont. • Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov (1849-1936) – Shifted work on association from subjective ideas to objective and quantifiable physiological events – Conditioned reflexes • Psychic reflexes – Changed to conditional reflexes » were conditional upon the forming of an association or connection between the stimulus and the response 10 Classical Conditioning Apparatus 11 Ivan Pavlov 12 Chapter 9 Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences 4 Ivan Pavlov Ivan Pavlov Ivan Pavlov Chapter 9 Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences 5 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism • Higher mental processes in animals could be described in physiological terms without mention of consciousness • Edwin B . Twitmyer —the lost one – Gave a talk in 1904 that described conditioned reflexes, but no one noticed • Alois Kreidl’s goldfish – Fish anticipated feeding 16 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism 17 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism Cont. • Vladimir M. Bekhterev (1857-1927) – Contemporary and rival of Pavlov – Founded Psychoneurological Institute 18 Chapter 9 Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences 6 The Influence of Animal Psychology on Behaviorism Cont. – Helped lead the field away from subjective ideas and toward objectively observed overt behavior – Associated reflexes • Reflexes that ca be elicited not only by unconditional stimuli but also by stimuli that have become associated with the unconditioned stimuli • This is actually Pavlov’s conditioned response but with a motor learning bent • Behkterev postulated that higher-level processes could be built using associated reflexes 19 The Influence of Functional Psychology and Behaviorism • Functionalism was a direct antecedent of Behaviorism – It was more objective than other schools of psychology at the time • Func tiona lis ts were ca lling f or a more obj ecti ve psych ol ogy even as Watson created the first tenets of behaviorism – In 1911, Pillsbury defined psychology as the science of behavior • he argued that it was possible to treat human beings as objectively as other aspects of the physical universe – Others moved away from mentalistic ideas: • William Montague • J. R. Angell 20 Which Brings Us to: • John Broadus Watson 21 Chapter 9 Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences 7 References • Kendler, H. H. (1987). Historical foundations of modern psychology. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole. • Schultz, D . P., & Schultz, S. E. (1996). A history of modern psychology (6th edition). Ft. Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Publishers. • Schultz, D. P., & Schultz, S. E. (2004). A history of modern psychology (8th edition). Ft. Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Publishers. 22 Chapter 9 Behaviorism: Antecedent Influences 8.
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