PSYC 3012- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 71 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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History: cognitive psychology is young study of cognition began at end of 19th century, wilhelm wundt ~ opened first psychology lab in 1879; used introspection. Introspection ~ asking people what they are thinking of/ associating with certain words: apple = we think red (or green) Issues need to be able to articulate; people could lie; bias; can"t generalize or measure cognitive behavior: behaviorism dominated early 20th century, behaviorists only want to measure what can be seen or measured (reactions to stimuli) Image, desire, perception, emotion: want to see actions (pick red apple between red and green apple, bf skinner radical behaviorist, did not want to hear memory, reinforcement with reward and punishment, pigeons (peck vs turn; ping pong) Behaviorism was reaction to introspection: freud (not cognitive psychologist but he had an impact) would come up with idea but would not test the idea. Now: learned lessons from behaviorism: need for observation and measurement.
