PSYCH207 Study Guide - Human Factors And Ergonomics, Connectionism, Donald O. Hebb
16 Oct 2011
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You see causal relationship because you have seem them in the past and have experienced it. Emphasis on that which is innate, there are some cognitive capacities you are born with. You don"t need experience to see causal relationships. Regarded the mission of psychology to be the explanation of our experience. Function more important than content: method: introspection in natural settings, most study the whole organism in real-life situations, must get out of laboratory. Psychology as the behaviourist sees it is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behaviour. Took root in the 1930"s and dominated academic psychology well into the 1960s. Evolved as a reaction to the lack of progress using introspection. Became unfashionable to talk about mental representations and consciousness. Learning was emphasized as was the relationship between inputs (stimuli) and outputs (responses) Focus on the holistic aspects of conscious experience (i. e. what order is imposed in perception)
