PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Change Blindness, Principles Of Grouping, Transient Response
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Introspectionism solution to the black box, look inside to see what"s going on (wundt, End product of cognitive processing, not the process itself: behaviorism solution to the black box, emphasis on what can be directly observed (watson, skinner, problems. Can"t account for diversity of human behavior: example: language. Can be two independent variables working on two different dependent variables: donders mental chronometry: the study of the time course of mental processes, subtractive method--the difference between detection and the total time will give us the decision time, problems. Assumption of pure insertion: all stages remain the same when the new one is added, problem: adding the decision stage may influence another stage (like detection) Assumption of additivity: the durations of all stages add together to yield the reaction time, problem: stages might operate in parallel. Assumes you already know what the stages are: problem: you probably don"t. Illusionary contour -- see a figure that isn"t there.
