PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cognitive Psychology, Mealworm, Gestalt Psychology
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Mealworms (food source) cut into small or large pieces. Smaller pieces easier to mandibulate: aka maneuver. Recorded handling times (time from first contact until consumption) of recently fledged, young, and older juveniles, as well as adults. Cognitivism is an approach in psychology that is concerned more with decision making, thinking, problem solving, imagining, and related topics, than solely, or primarily, with observable behavior. One of the early roots of cognitivism is german gestalt psychology. Learning involves the development of cognitive maps, internal representations of relationships between goals and behaviors as well as knowledge of the environment where the goals are to be found. In the tolman and honzik (1930) blocked-path study, rats that had learned this maze almost invariably selected path 3 when path 1 was blocked at b. It seemed they somehow knew that the barrier at b also blocked the much shorter path 2.
