PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Contiguity, Confounding, Cognitive Revolution
17 Dec 2013
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Structuralism (edward titcher): understanding the structure of consciousness in its basic elements and how they are related. Goal: reducing consciousness into its core components such as sensations, feelings, and images. Data collected through introspection experimenter"s trained subjects to observe and report their own experiences. Flaw of introspection: subjects recorded private data (biased) personal interpretations of what they experiences with no independent verification of the claim. Public data: could be directly observed and verified observers could agree about what actions a person did, but not observe the mental processes that led to a person to produce that behaviour. Cognitive psychology: study of our thoughts and mental processes (memory, attention, language, problem solving, and forming categories and concepts cognitive revolution) Understanding organism function as a product of genes, the brain, nervous and edocrine systems behaviours are explained through biochemical processes and communication between neurons: developmental: How behaviours and mental processes change across a lifespan (eyesight declining with age: evolutionary:
