PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Ganglion Cell, Occipital Lobe
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Introspectionism: look inside to see what is going on: observation of mental state, wilhem wundt and edward titchener, used senses, probs: difficult to verify, private events, end of cognitive processing, not the process itself. Cognitive approach: )nfer what"s going on inside the box, focuses on how we think, thought process affect the way we behave, computational view of the mind: mind is like a comp program. Watson proposed behaviorism, wanted to restrict psychology to behavioral data and end introspectionism. Information processing: traces sequences of mental operations involved in cognition, equates mind to a computer, we process stimuli received not just respond to it: operation of the mind can be described in # of stages. Dependent variable: what you measure (rxn time, accuracy, brain activity) Independent variable: what you manipulate (# of items to be memorized) Best to have two (or multiple) independent variables and an interaction. Mental chronometry: the study of the time course of mental processes: invented by donders.
