PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Neuroplasticity, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Revolution
5 Oct 2013
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Was first launched as the scientific study to knowledge . Cognitive psychology can help us understand capacities relevant to virtually every moment of our lives. Wundt"s and titchner"s view: psychology needed to be concerned largely with the study of conscious mental events (feelings, thoughts, perceptions, recollections) The only way for us to study thoughts is for each of us to introspect (look within) and to observe and record the content of our own mental lives. Soon forced to acknowledge that some thoughts are unconscious (unobservable) Rules out animals and children (unable to report their feelings) We achieve objectivity by making sure the raw data are out in plain view, so that you can inspect evidence. Insisted on independently observable stimuli and responses. Behaviourism of john b. watson and skinner. Learning: involves changes in response probabilities that vary with changes in stimuli over time. Learning history (record patterns of behaviour with the accumulation of experience)
