PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: B. F. Skinner, Neuroscience, Franciscus Donders

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Kristie Dukewich

Document Summary

Executive control; stop you from inappropriate automatic thought to do action. Don"t eat when hungry, have a list what to buy. Methods, alternate interpretations,(data and experiment) to have the general conclusion of concept. Fenesi and kim (redundant vs complementary: diff interest, difficulty, engagement, understanding, comprehension) **critical thinking: evidence, argumentation, teaching (recognition), checking your assumptions, logically consistence, next step (active questioning) Age of enlightenment: get together to develop scientific methods. Cartesian dualism: i think therefore i am not believed in the existence of body but believe the existence of mind. Wilhen wundt: structuralism: our overall experience is determined by combining basic elements of experience. Basic elements: sensation uncovered through analytic introspection (observer trained to free from bias. William james: associationism : memories become link with elements of experience. One element can represent more than one event. Event1 dinner party :smell of perfume of women, event 2 going. Hermann ebbinghaus: wanted measure memories, he used himself as subject.