EXP 3604 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Classical Conditioning, Donald Broadbent, Franciscus Donders

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Psychology
• Course: EXP 3604
• Professor: Jessica P.Stagner

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology - a branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. Early work in cognitive psychology: the works of donders, ebbinghaus, wundt, james, and many others provided what seemed to be the start to the study of the mind. Abandoning the study of the mind: the works of watson and skinner"s idea of classical and operant conditioning, respectively, became popular. Thus, the introduction of behaviorism cause a decline in cognitive psychology and this idea dominated american psychology of many decades: however, there were many that were not entirely with behaviorism. Tolman and his researches that were among many works that set the stage for the reemergence of the mind in psychology. The rebirth of the study of the mind: the decade of the 1950s is generally recognized as the beginning of the cognitive revolution, the introduction of digital computer, ai, and information theory.