PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Donald Broadbent, Cognitive Neuroscience, Operant Conditioning
13 Jan 2018
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Psyc 213 cognition (cid:862)cognition: early theories and ways of thinking(cid:863) Behaviorism (1900s: psychology wanted to be seen as a more scientific field, focused on the stimulus and response only what can be observed, mental processes were treated as a mysterious black box that should be avoided! Psyc 213 cognition: shift from human to animal research (if we are only interested in overt actions, animals will give us more control and manipulation than humans) e. g. skinner and operant conditioning. One reason was because of problems with behaviorism. Three main stages of cognitive psychology: 1950s/1960s - human experimental psychology, memory, attention, problem-solving, language, 1970s computer analogies, information processing approach, artificial intelligence, computer simulation, 1980s cognitive neuroscience, brain damage and effect on cognition. Cognition is an actively developing area of inquiry. It has evolved and will continue to evolve with new findings, new questions, new techniques and tools. We can think of it almost like a fashion.
