PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Ernst Haeckel, Chromosome, Falsifiability
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Central commitments: heaven vs. earth, heavenly perfection, earthly imperfection, earth at the center, na ve realism, 3 parts of the soul. The great theoretical frameworks of psychology inspired by evolution and the failure of structuralism goal=overcome the flaws in structuralism by focusing on the unconscious downfall=not scientific, put too much emphasis on individuals, ignoring societal influences inspired by evolution goal=understand what mental processes are for (in evolutionary terms) downfall=overly teleological, too narrow in focus (but got a lot right) inspired by descartes and chemistry goal=develop a periodic table of the mind source of evidence comes from introspection downfall=unconscious thought. Anti behaviorism concepts learning = s r patterns cognitivists invoke unobservable meaningless concepts to explain behavior learning = s o r patterns the story of human learning is incomplete without internal representations latent learning: learning that isn"t directly observable competence/performance distinction: cognitive maps: internal, spatial representations of the maze.
