PSYC 334 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Mental Rotation, Precession, Mental Chronometry

• School: Chico State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Martinusvanden Berg

Document Summary

Behaviorism treats the mind as a black box. Can only study observable phenomenon such as stimuli and responses. But, some human behaviors can not be fully understood in this way. Reaction time (rt): a measure of the time elapsed between some stimulus and the person"s response to the stimulus. Mental events take time, rt gives some indication about how many events or how complex the mental events are. Looking at the correct answers an at the mind of mistakes that were made. A comparison between two things for the purpose of explanation or clarification. Ex: comparing the mind to a steam engine. Memory and cognition can be understood as a sequence of independent processing stages. Mental processes can be divided into individual steps. How each step is performed, and how fast, is not. In each step the information is worked on in some way a model of the specific mental precesses that take place when a particlar task is performed.