PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Camillo Golgi, Golgi'S Method, Silver Nitrate
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Many animal behaviorists recruited for war effort, war makers needed to understand why particular decisions made (ex. Attention, motivation) & how to improve decision-making under stress & pressure: so had to start talking about mental events, attention, motivation, decision making, memory. Stimulus sampling theory: guarding prisoners, read math txtbks, thought can use math to describe mental events that affect bhvr. Describes how stimuli & responses become associated. Suggested that on each trial, animal/person is only sampling a subset of the stimulus characteristics: light bulb: bright, yellow, warm, specific location, white base, explains why learning is a curve. Skinner accused estes of having brain damage from war. Conference of ai & information theory, darthmouth (1956) Multi-disciplinary & 10wks: most conferences these days are 3dys. Simon & newell presented logic theorist: comp simulation, could use logic to prove math formulas, later developed symbol manipulation model. ~ james" associationism but now the connections represent cognition.
