PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lake Ontario, Procedural Memory, Lake Superior

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Lecture notes - january 9th (memory modules 24, 25, and 26) This week"s topic falls under the cognitive perspective. The cognitive perspective is an off-shoot/product of the behaviourist perspective. The behaviourist perspective emphasizes s-r relationships, and states that this relationship is stamped in . Strict behaviourists believe that when an organism encounters a particular stimulus that activates the corresponding area in the brain that corresponds to the stimulus. So the certain set of neutrons pertaining to that stimulus are activated. When the stimulus neutrons are activated, they in turn activate another set of neutrons that pertain to the response. If that response is reinforced, the physiological connection between the stimulus and the response is strengthened. The cognitive perspective believes that behaviourists are missing out on a important piece of the puzzle. The cognitive perspective argues that something happens in-between the stimulus and the response, which is cognitive processes. Cognition simply refer to mental processes or put more simply, thinking .