PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Complementary Colors, Parietal Lobe, Chemical Reaction
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Muller-lyer illusion line a looks longer than line b (a) (b) Cognitive psychology the scientific study of the human mind. The study of the structures and processes of the mind and brain that take in, transform, and use information. Stimulus perceive the letters recognize the words comprehend the english sentence access knowledge of robins, vegetables decide truth or falsity remember true-left, false-right decide which hand to raise use movement processes to move the hand. The problem with cognitive psychology = the mind is unobservable ((black box)) Problems: difficult to verify, private events that aren"t public, end product of cognitive processing and not the process itself. Skinner: psychology is the science of behavior , emphasis on what can be directly observed. Shaping: rewarding successively closer approximations of a desired behavior, useful for teaching new behaviors. Problems with behaviorism: can"t account for diversity of human behavior. Example: language: limiting science to the observable mind is a bad idea.
