PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cognitive Neuroscience, Behaviorism, Edward B. Titchener

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Amnesia due to brain damage, a person has lost the ability to remember certain materials. H. m. is a case study where doctors performed brain surgery on his head, but ruined his memory for events happening after the surgery. 1967, ulric neisser published the first book in cognition. 19th century, scholars such as wilhelm wundt and student edward bradford titchener launched a new pstychology concerned with mental events. The years of behaviourism beliefs, wishes, goals, and expectations are all things that cannot be directed observed. Kant"s transcendental method consists of starting with observable facts than working backwards to observations. It"s creating a hypothesis to explain unseen mechanisms in order to explain visible data. Concurrent articulation task (such as saying tah-tah-tah repeatedly) requires the mechanisms for speech production. Cannot produce a subvocal speech with overt speech. We can conclude that the rehearsal loop interferes with working memory. We can also test people"s memory spans by using complex visual shapes.

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