PSYC1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Kuhn, Personal Development, Molecular Machine
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Top down processing: what you already know influences what you hear. Disciplines can be considered scientific if they rely on the scientific method: observations > data > theory > hypothesis > observations. Formal science: karl popper: falsifiability, thomas kuhn: scientific paradigms and revolutions. Paradigms: subject matter, general definition of the field, specific focal topics. Intellectual influences: prior, contemporary, new mindsets occur as a result of rejecting the ideas of a prior mindset. Individual differences are purely based on what we have been taught and experienced in the past. The five most prominent padadigms in contemporary psychology: behavioural, subject matter, general definition, the scientific study of behaviour, specific focal topic. Learning: methods, experimental (mostly animal, language and concepts, stimulus, response, conditioning, reinforcement, shaping, root metaphor, blank slate. Intellectual influences: prior, mentalism, contemporary, other sciences, cognitive, subject matter, general definition, the scientific study of mental processes, specific focal topic, perception, attention, memory, thinking, methods, experimental (mostly human, language and concepts.
