PSYC 3030 Lecture : PSYC3030 Lecturenotes
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Much of psychology is the study of stuff that we do everyday, yet take for granted. This is particularly true to cognition, which involves many covert cognitive processes. Behaviorism: cognitive psych was crushed by behaviorism, according to watson (1913): Psychology need no longer delude itself into thinking that it is making mental states the object of observation . Skinner wrote verbal behavior, describing how children learn language through operant conditioning: chomsky wrote a scathing critique. The computer provided a nice metaphor that is often used today: You can move your focus of attention without moving your eyes. Someone who learns something while drunk will later remember it better while drunk than while sober. Controlled studies have found that cramming for an exam is an effective as distributing the studying over time. Studies of divided attention have shown that driving does not generally suffer during cell-phone use. Recent evidence supports some of the claims of extra sensory perception (esp) advocates.
