PSYC 2400H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wilhelm Wundt, Occipital Lobe, Resting Potential
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Lecture2: introduction of cognition continued: william james. Considered memory, reasoning, attention, perception, consciousness principles of psychology (book) came out in 1890. In the text: he is saying that you can control and test for memory, knowledge and experience from them to demonstrate that something is true. My experience is what i agree to attend to do statement is somewhat true however you do not always agree to experiences such as a fire alarm going off etc. Secondary memory, ptsd etc. are simply constructs. Data that we can measure in the outside world. For example: we cannot measure what it takes, the process to laugh at a pun, to draw a picture: john b. watson (1878-1958) Consciousness (awareness of stimulus and process) is out of bounds, that is because we cannot measure the processes. Classical conditioning is a way of eliciting a response as a function proceeded in time: burrhus f. skinner (1904-1990)
