PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Metalinguistic Awareness, Fast Mapping, Representativeness Heuristic
19 Apr 2018
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Cognitive revolution: 19th century focus on mind introspection, but too unreliable, behaviourism focus on overt responses incomplete picture of human functioning, empirical study of cognition 1956. When psychology first emerged as an independent science, the focus was on the mind. The behaviourist focus on overt responses was empirically more sound, yet theorists argued that it provided an incomplete picture of human functioning. Renegade theorists continued to study cognition, the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. 3 major advances in this empirical study were reported at a scientific conference in 1956, a watershed in the history of psychology. Simon and newell described the first computer program simulating human problem solving, Noam chomsky outlined a new model that changed the study of language, and george miller presented his famous paper arguing for the 7 plus or minus two capacity of stm. Cognitive science has since grown into a robust, interdisciplinary field focusing on language, problem solving, decision-making, and reasoning.
