PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edward B. Titchener, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Classical Conditioning
2 May 2016
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The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking, and understanding, and the act of using those processes (ashcraft & klein) Environment (i. e. : stimuli) -> mental representations and processes (perception, Ppl may have intuitions about their own mental processes, but these are unreliable: over-estimate their own ability, memory factors, post hoc rationalizations. Participants talk on phone while driving in simulator, measured errors. Control: self-assessment of driving negatively correlated w/ errors. Some of these pairs semantically related to target word: ocean moon -> tide, later, asked name a detergent . Participants more likely to respond tide if they had seen ocean moon pair. When asked why they chose tide, they didn"t mention word pair; instead, my mother uses tide , i like the box . We cannot rely on intuition to understand cognition. Method for gaining knowledge about world, not topic being studied: develop theories/models of world, test against what"s actually observed.
