PSY450H1 Chapter : psy450- 7 9 17- richards.doc
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Emergence of cognitive psychology: cognitive psychology is the most prominent school of experimental psychology, unlike behaviourism arose simultaneously in us & britain, but: role of british figures (kenneth craik, frank george, w. grey. Walter, late donald broadbent & alan turing"s work: before this time, psychologists didn"t ignore cognition, gestaltists paid a lot of attention; spearman in his intelligence work . 1923; piaget in cognitive development 1920s; even alfred binet . All interwoven and underlie cognitive psychology: not initiated by psychologists, but electrical engineers (claude shannon, Norbert weiner, j. von neumann, turing, craik, cambridge: electronic computer invention that finally integrated everything together (1940s w/ 1948 transistor making computer possible) 3 central ideas came from computer that alter conceptualization of cognition. Equivalent to on/off states of electrical switches. Information theory channel/storage capacity" & noisy signal" important innovation was redundancy" = surplus" information i.
