Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operant Conditioning, Colin Cherry, Donald Broadbent

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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Introduction to cognitive psychology: thursday september 8, 2016. Only a few of them are relevant. You can hear many sounds but your brain processes which are important, like the sound of a coffee cup opening. Satificing (simon, 1957) we don"t search for the optimal solution or exact right memory, but mostly we do. We get by by satificing, doing something that is just good enough to get by. Thinking of the exact perfect way of saying something everytime would be inefficient, so we satifice. Nativism: plato, descartes, kant, emphasis on that which is innate. Empiricism: locke, home, stuart mill, emphasis on experience/learning. Application of the scientific method to understanding psychology. The specific approach determines what kinds of data are collected: which puts constraints on conclusions. Experimenter may introspect, or may collect thoughts from others. Ignores unconscious influences: object recognition, retrieval from memory, attention etc.