PSYCH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edge Detection, Parietal Lobe, Detection Theory
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Cogniive psychology- the study of the structures and processes of the mind and brain that take in, transform, and use informaion- try to infer what is going on in the brain a. b. Introspecion- look inside your own mind and see what is happening a. Problem- diiculty to verify, can"t prove, not public, does not show the process. Behaviorist- only look at relaionship between simulus and response, science a. b. Cannot prove what is happening in the mind. Problem- cant account for diversity of human behavior, limits science to what is observable. Subtracive method- all stages remain the same when the new one is added. Assumpions of addiivity- duraion of all stages add together to yield reacion ime. Stronger to prove that a hypotheses is wrong. Huppert and piercy- amnesic test to see what is wrong. Ebbingaus- forgeing curve, thorndike- law of efect or saisfacion i. ii.
