Behaviorism is a school of thought that was there long before Skinner, championed by psychologists like John Watson, for instance.
行为主义学派,远在斯金纳提出他的理论之前就已经存在,受到了众多心理学家的拥护,比如约翰·华生。
We even have entire disciplines like economics and psychology and I dare even say modern political science that reinforced this view of human nature.
看吧,我们有一整套经济学,和心理学的理论服务于个人,而且我敢说,在现代政治科学上,更是强调了人的个体特性。
And it focuses on the theory and the application of positive psychology in various professional domains.
教学重点放在,积极心理学理论,及在各行各业的应用。
I'm also including modern-day approaches to computational theory, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary theory and cultural psychology.
而这些理论则包括了,计算理论,认知神经科学,进化论,以及文化心理学的诸多当代理论
I want to talk about Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory, which is a very important and a little technical-- psychologists can become mathematical and technical as well.
我会谈到,卡尼曼和特维斯基的前景理论,这是很重要的理论,同时需要一定的数学计算,心理学家也可以精于计算,和擅用技巧
But these are important issues and these vary a lot from culture to culture and a good theory of psychology has to explain how these differences arise.
这些重要问题,在每个文化中都不一样,一个好的心理学理论必须能解释,这些差异是怎么产生的。
In the spring, our courses focus, not so much on the theory, but now move to the application of positive psychology since it's a master of applied positive psychology.
春季,我们的课程,不再以理论为焦点,而是转向积极心理学的应用,因为这是应用积极心理学硕士学位。
And this is one of the questions which I'm going to deal with in the next couple of lectures but before I get to the theory of social psychology I want to talk about an individual difference.
而这其中一个问题就是,我会在这两节课里讲的,但首先我们来了解社会心理学的理论,我想讲一个个体差异。
But the general idea of Freud is actually been so successful both in the study of scientific psychology and in our interpretation of everyday life that, to some extent, freud's been a victim of his own success.
但弗洛伊德的理论,确实在科学心理学的研究,和日常生活的解释方面,获得了巨大的成功,以至于弗洛伊德多少有点,成了他自身成功的牺牲者。
This is by the famous biologist, D'Arcy Thompson, who wrote the book On Growth and Form, and it's sort of the model of many developmental psychologists and many evolutionary psychologists so I'll end with this: "Everything is the way it is because it got that way."
这是著名的生物学家,达西·汤普森所提出的,他写了一本叫做《论生长和形态》的书,这句话也是许多发展心理学家,和进化心理学的理论模型,所以我用这句话来作为结束,"万物如此,皆因其本"
The idea was developed by the social psychologist Leon Festinger and it's called "Cognitive Dissonance Theory."
这个理论由社会心理学家Leon,Festinger提出的,被称为“认知失调理论”
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