CGSC170 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - White, Visual System, Turing Machine

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC170
• Professor: Kaja Jasinka

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Steps towards cognitive science: the cognitive turn in psychology (away from behaviorism, developments in the theory of computation and theory of information, development of information-processing models of cognitive capacities and abilities. Basic principles of behaviorism: psychologist should study only observable phenomenon and measurable behavior, avoid speculating about unobserved mental states, for behaviorists, psychology is the study of behavior. Reaction of mentalism: appeal to thoughts and desires to explain behavior, use of introspection to study conscious mental experience, dependence upon verbal reports. Behaviorism (cid:862)the (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious aspe(cid:272)t of (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior is u(cid:374)dou(cid:271)tedl(cid:455) (cid:373)ost i(cid:374)teresti(cid:374)g. b(cid:455) (cid:449)e are u(cid:374)a(cid:271)le to deal dire(cid:272)tl(cid:455) (cid:449)ith this (cid:271)(cid:455) the (cid:373)ethods of o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)atio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. (cid:863) Learning: assumption 1: all of learning is a result of conditioning, assumption 2: conditioning depends on upon processes of association and reinforcement. It is extinguished once the us is no longer presented (after a certain period of time)