PSYC-3306EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reductionism, Complete Review, Castle Clinton

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Measured through the performance of an animal. Exists because the way we measure learning is not the same as what learning is. Improper conditions were provided to demonstrate learning: there are no perfect experiments! Measure mechanisms indirectly by looking at the change in performance. Learning happens in the brain through synaptic connections. It is not possible to measure synaptic connections today. Test taking = outside factors that can affect results: personal, social, or visual stimulus. The terms used in psychology have no true existence in the real world. Intelligence, depression, personality, and motivation are defined by indirect measurements of the behaviours that surround them. Certain tests or measures to define hypothetical constructs. Rationalism = logic and reason of ones self to make conclusions. All of the reasons why we cannot trust the physical world. Aristotle (384 322b. c: moved away from the rationalism of plato to begin demonstrating empiricism, however, was still considered a rationalist, law of association:

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