PSYC1020 Lecture 1: 1-3A History and paradigms in psychology
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Top-down processing - what we already know and what we are presently thinking has large effects upon how (and how well) we will take in new info, think about it, remember it and act upon it. Top-down processing based on information in our long-term memory helps us to quickly organise perceptual experience. Conventional science: thomas kuhn - scientific paradigms and revolutions. A paradigm is a perspective, approach or frame of reference, as well as the group of researchers whose work adheres to this shared framework with respect to: Has a subject matter (general definition of the field and specific focal topics), methods, language and concepts, root metaphor, intellectual influences. Asking which paradigm is best? , or even which paradigm is true? is not likely to be answerable or useful. Asking what are the uses and limitations of each paradigm? is a better question.
