PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Learning
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Have participants report their thoughts while doing various things. You"re looking at the end product, not the process itself. Focus only on the observables & ignore the unobservables. Can"t account for the wide diversity of human behavior (like language) Limiting science to observable is a bad idea (think of the electron example) Infer what"s going on inside the black box . The computer metaphor - your mind is like a computer. Donder"s subtractive method (mental chronometry): focuses on stages of information processing. Assumption 1 : pure insertion - all stages stay the same. But new stage might actually influence other stages. Assumption 2 : additivity: the total processing time = sum of durations of all stages. But there might be overlap (occuring in parallel) Assumption 3 : you know what the steps are. Neuroscience: study of the physiological (brain) basis of cognition. Know parts of a neuron (dendrites, cell body, axon, action potential, myelin sheath, terminal buttons, synapse, etc. )
