PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cognitive Revolution, Cognitive Psychology, Information Processing
20 Dec 2019
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Video shown in class = contrasting behaviourism as a different field from psychology. Essentially what skinner was pushing for in manifesto. Quote on slide 17 = shows distinction between cognitivism and behaviourism. Schligner = said we reify things, the creation of term short term memory was done in order to describe a thing. Mit symposium was organized around information processing professionalism. The cognitivist approach to psychology is the most recent major school of thought. I mean, is cognitive psychology just asking old questions, albeit from a new point of view: a view that sees mind like a computer, cognitivism basically relies on two big ideas. The computational theory of mind: the mind?brain? is an information processing system and thinking is a form of information processing. The representational theory of mind: intelligent behaviour occurs because internal symbols causally mediate between organism and world: however, in information theory (shannon, 1948), information" reduces certainty.
