PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Tabula Rasa, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Revolution
20 Aug 2013
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May 9th psych 207 history overview and approaches. Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. Henri poincare: antecedent philosophers and traditions, the cognitive revolution, paradigms of cognitive psychology. There wasn"t much of systematic evidence so it was intuitions and also heavily reliance on authority (accept theory) they used logic a lot, but it can be meaningless if the original assumption is wrong. Empiricism: key is association between experiences (locke, hume, mill) tabula rasa. Nativism: emphasis on that which is innate (plato, descartes, kant) Not internal perception but experimental self observation (how they react to their answers). Must be done in lab under controlled conditions. Have people describe things in their basic elements. Must study the whole organism in real life situations. Focus on the holistic aspect of conscious experience.
