PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Revolution, Peer Pressure
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Things we can measure and miniplate in scientific ways. North americans seeing his experience and they thought they should focus on th9ngs we can measure and manipulate in scientific ways. Behaviorists - we r no gonna talk ab memory or internal things that we can"t see or measure. We can watch what animal does as we can measure behavior and see how it changes as a function of certain stimuli. Expose to some sort of stimuli like sound light or pain. And then see how they behave and measure behavior and connection between stimulus and response. Inspired people to focus and study the internal mind. The computer is important as it was a model of the human mind. Cognitive psych can"t see consciousness but we can see the impact during certain situations. Invisible animal: behaviorists said you can only study when you can see and measure. People didn"t believe this was entirely true.
