It is certainly important to show that laboratory stress can alter the number of natural killer cells in the blood. But it is equally important to test to what extent the levels of stress that people experience on a day-to-day basis result in them catching a cold more often or taking longer to recover from one.
The goal for researchers, therefore, must be to complement traditional laboratory experiments with less controlled studies under real-world circumstances. The term ecological validity is used to refer the degree to which an effect has been obtained under conditions that are typical for what happens in everyday life Brewer, In this example, then, people might keep a careful daily log of how much stress they are under as well as noting physical symptoms such as headaches or nausea.
Although many factors beyond stress level may be responsible for these symptoms, this more correlational approach can shed light on how the relationship between stress and health plays out outside of the laboratory. Learning theories focus on how we respond to events or stimuli rather than emphasizing what motivates our actions. These theories provide an explanation of how experience can change what we are capable of doing or feeling. Classical Conditioning theory helps us to understand how our responses to one situation become attached to new situations.
For example, a smell might remind us of a time when we. If you went to a new cafeteria with the same smell, it might evoke feelings you had when you were in school.
Or a song on the radio might remind you of a memorable evening you spent with your first true love. New situations may bring about an old response because the two have become connected. Attachments form in this way. When you try to quit, everything that was associated with smoking makes you crave a cigarette.
Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist interested in studying digestion. As he recorded the amount of salivation his laboratory dogs produced as they ate, he noticed that they actually began to salivate before the food arrived as the researcher walked down the hall and toward the cage.
Of course, what had happened was. The dogs knew that the food was coming because they had learned to associate the footsteps with the food. He began to ring a bell, for instance, prior to introducing the food. Sure enough, after making this connection several times, the dogs could be made to salivate to the sound of a bell. Once the bell had become an event to which the dogs had learned to salivate, it was called a conditioned stimulus.
Notice that the response, salivation, is the same whether it is conditioned or unconditioned unlearned or natural. What changed is the stimulus to which the dog salivates. One is natural unconditioned and one is learned conditioned. Who cares? One of the most widespread applications of classical conditioning principles was brought to us by the psychologist, John B. Watson believed that most of our fears and other emotional responses are classically conditioned.
He had gained a good deal of popularity in the s with his expert advice on parenting offered to the public. Watson sat Albert down and introduced a variety of seemingly scary objects to him: a burning piece of newspaper, a white rat, etc.
But Albert remained curious and reached for all of these things. Over the years Titchener's approach using introspection became more rigid and limited. Other critics argue that structuralism was too concerned with internal behavior, which is not directly observable and cannot be accurately measured. Also, because introspection itself is a conscious process it must interfere with the consciousness it aims to observe.
The development drove, nonetheless, to the advancement of a few countermovements that would in general respond firmly to European patterns in the field of exploratory psychology. Conduct and character were past the degree considered by structuralism. In isolating significance from current realities of involvement, structuralism contradicted the phenomenological convention of Franz Brentano's demonstration psychology and Gestalt psychology, just as the functionalist school and John B.
Watson's behaviorism. Filling in as an impetus to functionalism, structuralism was consistently a minority school of psychology in America.
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I Accept Show Purposes. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Sign Up. What are your concerns? Instead, he called his to his approach to psychology as volunteerism. It was actually his student, Edward B. Titchener, who coined the term structuralism. Despite this, Titchener became a strong force in early psychology and is responsible for establishing the very first school of thought in psychology.
But it was not without its critics. The school of thought known as functionalism soon emerged, partially in response to structuralism. Rather than simply looking at the parts of consciousness, functionalism stressed looking at the purpose and function of human thought and behavior.
The two schools of thought became competing elements in psychology. While many schools of thought continue to have an influence today, structuralism essentially disappeared when Titchener died. While structuralism was relatively short-lived, it played an important role in the development of early psychology and had an influence on the emergence of experimental psychology. So why study structuralism if it has been largely replaced by other schools of thought such as psychoanalysis, behaviorism , and cognitive psychology?
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