FYSM 1607 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cognitive Psychology, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
17 Dec 2018
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View: the mind is composed of elements that are assembled together by the power of the will. Re ecting on your own thoughts (thinking about your own thoughts) Strengths: first scienti c attempt to study mind, clear and de ned goals (list elements in combinations > introspection) Weaknesses: introspection is awed, experiences change over time, expectations can change experiences. View: mind as behaviour - inner operations too complex, incapable of being measured objectively and scienti cally. Behaviour, on the other hand, is easily quanti able. Method: look at how environmental conditions cause subjects to behave in certain ways (stimulus/response models) Strengths: completely objective science of behaviour, controlled and systematic study of behaviour. Weaknesses: leaves out role of consciousness, mental representations. Failure of behaviourism to account for language acquisition. Development of new measuring tools (brain scanning techniques) Scienti c method: hypothetic-deductive approach (test implications of hypothesis in order to support or refute it)
