PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mental Rotation, Demand Characteristics, Hemispatial Neglect
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Introspectionism: looking inside yourself: wilhelm wundt, edward titchener, problems. Only deals with the end of cognitive processing, not the process itself. Behaviorism: observes only the stimuli and responses, ignores the processes of the mind (the black box: pavlov"s dogs, john watson. Little albert experiment (classical conditioning): induced a fear of rats and all other furry white things by associating rats with a scary noise: bf skinner: founder of operant conditioning. Operant conditioning (how behavior is strengthened by reinforcement) Ignore the unobservable mind: shaping: rewarding successively closer approximations of a certain behavior. Number of items to be memorized, passage of time. Main effects and interactions, interpreting graphs: look on section slides. Cognitive approach: infer what"s going on inside the mind: computational view of the mind (mind is like a computer program) Information processing: each stage receives info from the previous stage, transforms the info, and sends it to the next stage.
