PSY 421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ulric Neisser, Leon Festinger, Noam Chomsky
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After reading and discussing chapter 19, students should: Be aware of the history of the development of cognitive psychology prior to 1950. Be familiar with the development of cognitive psychology during the 1950s. Be acquainted with the development of cognitive psychology after the 1950s. Be familiar with the work in artificial intelligence. Be acquainted with the many aspects of information-processing psychology. Be familiar with the emergence of and work in new connectionism. Throughout psychology"s history, human cognitive abilities have been studied philosophically, and later experimentally. Mill, sir frederic charles bartlett, fechner, ebbinghaus, james, and others. His work demonstrated that the child"s interactions with the environment become more complex and adaptive as its cognitive structure becomes more articulated through maturation and experience. His work in cognitive development between the 1930s and 1940s contributed to the revived interest. Cybernetics is the study of the structure and function of information processing systems.
