PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hemoglobin, Visual Agnosia, Frontal Lobe
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Behaviorists stressed that a thorough understanding of behavior was necessary for understanding people. Careful analysis of the observable inputs and outputs . Stress that the only thing you should study is the things that are observable. John watson and little albert: interested in how infants learn emotions, argued that emotions are a behavioral contingency that we learn. The amount of time it takes to process an input and generate an output. What might rt reflect in a given task. Rt could be indicative of things related to the task (hard or easy task) But could also be unreleased to the task (e. g. participant is spacing out) Useful to the extent that it reflects the task. Task is to say the colour of the word, rather than the word itself. Task is to remember group of letters on the screen. Participant is asked on a next screen if a probe letter was a letter they were shown previously or not.
