[PSYB57H3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (84 pages long!)
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Brief history: pre-20th century cognitive psychology: aristotle. How do you classify objects into groups; how do we decide which objects are grouped together: descartes, locke, ebbinghaus. Introspection: observing your own thoughts: problems with introspection: Brief history: behaviorism: behaviorism overcame the limitations posed by introspection. Brief history: cognitive revolution: from introspection and behaviorism, experimental psychologists learned that: Characterized by rapid progression propelled by methods of traditional psychophysics and experimental psychology. Fueled by computation analysis and marked arrival of early cognitive science. The idea that the world contains information for humans to process: bit: strands for binary digits. ". The quantification of the amount of information provided by the occurrence of an event. The less likely something is to occur, the more information it actually contains. Time limitation: the amount of time it takes for information to be processed in the nervous system.
