PSYCO258 Midterm: Midterm Review
7 Mar 2016
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Classical philosophers: explainations must be physical (not spiritual/mystical) Nativism vs empiricism: nativist: ideas are innate, we have building blocks already, empiricist: born with nothing, ideas are learned. Descartes compromise: ideas can be innate or learned: structuralism: everything made up of basic elements of experience, participants introspect on simple task. Functionalism: change our thoughts and behaciors to ones that are most prevalent to our environment: james: to focus on one things takes attention away from another, cattell, thorndike. Theory of learning, based on trial & error: ruled out introspective data bc its not scientific, motivations for behavior, verbal learning. Cog psychology: info processing: mental events in quantitative terms, stages of cognition. Implies sequence of rapid mental events determines response. Chomsky vs skinner: cs: ai, a way of talking about unobservable mental events, skinner: s-r theory was adequate to explain learning language, chomsky: stimulus response doesn"t work, general approach to how humans learn language wouldn"t work, too complicated.
