PSYC 2700 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Prosopagnosia, Behaviorism
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Mccarthy: behaviorism, classical conditioning previously neutral stimulus causes changes in response to the latter stimulus, cognition memory, and so on, that are what the mind does, cognitive psychology scientific study of the mind, cognitive revolution. A shift in psychology from the behaviorist"s stimulus response relationships to an approach whose main thrust was to understand the operation of the mind sequence of mental operations involved in cognition: operant conditioning presentation of positive reinforcers, or by the withdrawal of negative reinforcers, reaction time stimulus, savings method. Specific functions are produced by many: cognitive neuroscience cognition, distributed processing different areas of the brain, event related potential (erp) electrical responses of the human brain, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) measuring blood flow. Situations in which one function is absent while another function is present. There are two kinds of dissociations: single dissociations, which can be studied in one person, and double dissociations, which require two or more people: double dissociation, heuristic problem.
