PS260 Study Guide - Nerve Tract, Edge Enhancement, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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Introspection is the study of conscious experiences and so can tell us nothing about unconscious events. The years of behaviourism: an organisms behaviours are obviously observable in the right way: you can watch my actions, and so can anyone else who is appropriately positioned. The roots of the cognitive revolution: how people act is shaped by how they perceive the situation, how they understand the stimuli, and so on. That probably tells us what size feet the criminal has, even though no one observed his feet. Reproducing experiments and varying the experiments to test hypothesis - is what gives science its power. One way to measure working memory"s capacity is via a span test: in this test, we read to someone a list of say, four items, perhaps four letters ( a d g w ). The person has to report these back, immediately, in sequence. If she succeeds, we try it again with.
