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The Psychology of the Person
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The Beginning of Behaviorism John B. Watson (1878-1958) was a member of the faculty at John Hopkins University. He started his academic work in philosophy, but then switched to psychology, and In 1913 published his milestone paper:” Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it”
Watson’s Main Idea in His 1913 paper Watson argued that if psychology were to become a science, psychologists must stop their engagement in such topics as mental processes and states of consciousness, which were the main topics of the earlier schools, such as structuralism and Functionalism Only observable behaviors can be the subject matter of science. Emotions, thoughts, etc, were of interest to behaviorists only if they could be defined in terms of observable behaviors
Watson’s main Ideas (cont-d) Thinking , according to Watson, was simply a variant of verbal behavior, a “sub-vocal speech”, as evident by small vocal-cords movements he claimed accompanied thoughts. Watson claimed that observed behavior can be predicted, and eventually controlled by scientists.
Watson’s ConclusionsPersonality, he said was “the end product of our habit system”. That is, over the course of our lives we are conditioned to respond to certain stimuli in more or less predictable ways, which explains the consistency observed in personality characteristics.
Control over the environment Watson is famous (or infamous) that given enough control over the environment, he can take any baby, and regardless of the child innate abilities and features, he can mold the child into becoming anything or anyone that he, Watson, wanted. (see next slide)
Watson’s Infamous Statement He made his infamous statement: “ Give me a dozen healthy infants, well formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in, and I will guarantee to take any one at random, and train him to become any type of specialist I might select– doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and yes, even a beggerman and a thief” (1924).
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Watson’s perspective is deterministic people can be conditioned to react (emotionally or behaviorally) to stimuli without their awareness In this sense, referring to the old philosophical question whether we have control over out life, he seems to advocate the position that we do not have FREE WIILL.
Watson’s Legacy Watson’s main legacy is seen in the shift from subjective introspection into a system of explanation that advocated the operational definition of variables- that is- any variable studied needs to be defined in terms of specific operations that can be used to measure it and to quantify it. In addition, his idea that learning is the core of psychology has become quite prevalent.
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1. The Moral Law Folk
Theory Explained
Presentation by John Slifko,
PhD
From the book, ‘Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics’, by Mark Johnson
2. ‘Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive
Science for Ethics’
❖ In this book, author Mark Johnson
argues that humans are
fundamentally imaginative moral
animals, challenging the view that
morality is simply a system of
universal laws dictated by reason.
❖ He uses key findings from
cognitive science research to help
prove this.
Johnson, M. (1993). Moral imagination: Implications of cognitive
science for ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
3. Western Tradition & Moral Reasoning
❖ According to the Western moral tradition, we make
ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete
situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive
science undermines this view and reveals that
imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation.
❖ He says, “the way we frame and categorize a given
situation will determine how we reason about it, and
how we frame it will depend on which metaphorical
concepts we are using.”
Johnson, M. (1993). Moral imagination: Implications of cognitive
science for ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
4. Moral Law folk theory
❖ By a ‘Moral Law theory’
Johnson shows how every
aspect of morality is
imaginative— our
fundamental moral concepts,
our understanding of
situations, and our reasoning
about those situations are all
imaginatively structured and
based on metaphor.
Johnson, M. (1993). Moral imagination: Implications of cognitive
science for ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
5. Conception of morality
❖ Such metaphors, he says, define
our conception of mind, and they
therefore define part of our
conception of morality.
❖ In particular, they support the
dominant folk theory of morality
in our culture.
Johnson, M. (1993). Moral imagination: Implications of cognitive
science for ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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7. The Moral Law Folk Theory
Faculty Psychology.
The folk theory of Faculty Psychology is
defined chiefly by different metaphors for
the various aspects of mind (i.e.,
perception, passion, will, reason…)
It is shared by virtually everyone in
Western culture. But it isn’t something we
think about very often. In fact, it operates
most unconsciously for us to determine
how we understand our mental
operations.
8. The Moral Law Folk Theory
Our dual nature.
Human thus have a mental (or spiritual)
dimension and a physical (bodily)
dimension. We are driven by our bodily
passions to pursue pleasure (i.e.,
satisfaction of our needs and desires) and
to avoid pain & harm to ourselves.
Therefore, since our passions and desires
are not intrinsically rational, our bodily
and rational parts will tend to exist in
tension.
Johnson, M. (1993). Moral imagination: Implications of cognitive
science for ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
9. The Moral Law Folk Theory
The problem of
morality.
The problem of morality arises from the
fact that people can help or harm other
people, depending on how they act.
Unlike animals (who can also help and
harm), however, only people can be moral
or immoral, because only people have free
will. Image (Source): opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
Johnson, M. (1993). Moral imagination: Implications of cognitive
science for ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
10. ❖ Humans alone can use their reason to formulate principles
concerning how they ought to act.
❖ And they alone can then decide freely whether or not to
obey those principles.
❖ This raises the fundamental question of whether reason can
give general guidelines to will about how to act when
issues of help or harm (i.e., issues of well-being) arise.
Image (Source): bigthink.com
Johnson, M. (1993). Moral imagination: Implications of cognitive science for ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11. The Moral Law Folk Theory
Moral laws.
The answer to this question is that there
most definitely are general laws given
by universal human reason concerning
which acts we must do (prescriptions),
which acts we must not do (prohibitions)
and which acts we may do, if we so
choose (permissible acts).
Johnson, M. (1993). Moral imagination: Implications of cognitive
science for ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
12. ❖ Reason both generates
these laws and tells us
how they ought to be
applied to particular
cases.
❖ It does this by
analyzing situations to
see how they fall under
concepts contained in
moral laws.
Johnson, M. (1993). Moral imagination: Implications of cognitive
science for ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
13. The Moral Law Folk Theory
Moral motivation.
Reason is what separates people from
animals. Lacking reason, animals have
passion alone to determine their actions.
What makes people better than animals
is that reason can guide their actions.
What we most essentially are, then, is
rational animals. Therefore, it is better in
general to be guided by reason than to
be guided merely by passion.
Image (Source): whywereason.com
14. ❖ When will chooses to go against reason and with
passion, it is seen as being immoral, since it is better to
be guided by reason whenever it conflicts with passion.
❖ When will lacks the power to resist passion, it is seen as
being weak. Acting morally requires building a strong
will that can resist passion.
❖ And we have a moral duty to do so, since it is better to
be guided by reason than by passion alone.
15. According to the Moral Law folk
theory, then, morality is a massive,
ongoing power struggle between the
forces of reason and the forces of
passion.
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16. Moral Behavior
❖ Moral behavior thus requires
us to keep our moral reason
pure (so that it will give us the
right principles of action) and
to keep will strong (so that we
will have the willpower to do
what our reason tells us is
right.)
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17. We thus come to experience our moral lives as ongoing
struggles to develop and preserve purity of reason and
strength of will in the face of constant pressures that arise
from our embodiment in the world.
Image (Source): www.npr.org
18. If you liked this piece, please visit: johnslifko.com
❖ John has dedicated his work to
issues around the world for
democratic civil society with
major contributions to global
efforts in improving the
education of young women. He
supports the study of the historic
links between advancing
women’s rights, education and
democracy in the United States.
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