PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behaviorism
23 Sep 2016
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Analytic introspection: technique which trained subjects describe their experiences & thoughts in response to stimuli: required extensive training because subjects" goal was to describe their experience [elementary mental elements, e. g. made his subjects describe their experience of hearing a 5 note chord played on the piano then hoping wundt could answer a question about if they were able to hear each of the individual notes. Founded behaviourism: observable behaviour, not consciousness, involves unobservable processes thinking, emotions, reasoning, behavioural data, unobservable mental events, goal was to replace the mind with study of directly observable behaviour. Operation of memory (p. 20: sensory memory holds incoming info for fraction of a second, short term memory has limited capacity holds for seconds, curved arrow [process of rehearsal repeating something, blue arrow some info in stm transferred to ltm, green arrow some info in ltm returned to stm, long term memory has high capacity holds for long periods of time.
