PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychophysics, Behaviorism, Classical Conditioning
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I. e. use of black mask messages in rock music (hidden messages only perceived when song is playing backwards) - suspicion: unconscious can process things in nuance fashion - messages going into unconscious. Bottom-up: bombarded with patterns of stimuli - figuring it out without prior knowledge (don"t know what to expect) Top-down: know what to expect or what something is supposed to be, giving framework/ priming brain - some stimuli registers in neural biology -> sets off pattern -> connects to related patterns. 1900"s - resistance to dominant paradigms in psych: introspection and freudian psychoanalysis - guided most people"s thinking. Science studies systematic aspects of human nature (deterministic) Therapists: systematic affects people; free-will - work with person"s consciousness (understand determinism and uses free will) Freudian theories stayed metaphorical (not very well laying down scientific basis) Hard to go from psychophysics to high levels of interpretation etc.
