PSY 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Edward B. Titchener, Scientific Method, Cognitive Neuroscience
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Claims in order to know about something (ex: thinking) you need to base your knowledge on careful objective data. Believe human mind is blank slate and everything we experience writes on the slate. Measured howling it takes a person to make a decision. Developed reaction in time experiment (rt= reaction time) Choice rt - simple rt = time to make a decision. Mental responses can not be measured directly by can be inferred from the participants behavior. Present with simple object and ask them to describe basic sensations or experiences. Wrote about everyday experiences related to cognitive psychology. Observations based on functions of his own mind, not experience. Considered many topics in ignition including thinking consciousness, attention, memory, perception, imagination, and reasoning. People interested in how does this happen. Argues children are learning language through operant condition. Children hear parents and imitates them and if its correct children gets rewarded with smile, attention etc.
