PSY270H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Little Albert Experiment, Franciscus Donders, Operant Conditioning
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: mental processes such as perception, attention, and memory. Studying the mind: early work in cognitive psychology: donders" pioneering experiment: how long does it take to make a decision, reaction time. : how long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus: simple reaction time task presentation of a light. : participants are asked to press a button upon presenting a stimulus causes a mental response, leading to a behavioural response: choice reaction time task. : overall experience is determined by combining basic elements of: analytic introspection experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli. : technique in which trained participants described their: william james: principles of psychology , observations were based on introspections about operation of his own mind. : studies how pairing one stimulus with another, previously neutral: i. e. little albert experiment, pavlov"s pairing of food (dogs salivate) with a bell (neutral stimulus) causes dogs to salivate to sound of bell.
