PSYC 4370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Cognitive Neuroscience, Eniac, Human Computer
31 Jan 2017
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It became revolutionary in the 1950s due to a couple reasons. It was seen as breaking behaviorisms hold on experimental psychology. Adoption of new sets of theoretical concepts. Thus, by the 1930s, technology was approaching current complexities of technology that we know today. Wwii intensified many inventions and the interaction between man and machine became to be known. The first version of the electric computer created new discoveries in the 40s mainly the three concepts of cognition: information: even though the word is recorded since the 1300s, the notion of measuring it was seen as absurd. In other words, now it can be measured in terms of the uncertainty it eliminates. Also known as how many yes-no questions are required for specifications. It allowed things such as channel capacity, storage capacity and noisy signals. One important was the notion of redundancy; if the signal only has what is necessary it has meaningless additional information.
