PSYC 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Logical Positivism, Empiricism, Sensationalism
1 Oct 2016
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Objectives: describe models of learning and memory, and relate them to underlying neurological and cognitive mechanisms. Terms: ontology: a person"s beliefs about the nature of the universe/reality, epistemology: a person"s view of how humans come to know about the universe, scientific realism, a type of ontology, components b. i. We all inhabit a common, objective reality that exists independent of what anyone thinks or says about it b. ii. The goal of science is to discover/describe it. Implication: everything can be measuredeventually c: vs. dualism, sensationalism, empiricism/ logical positivism d. i. Objective reality not taken as a given (or outright rejected) Neuroscience: biology must adhere to chemistry and physics, psyc theories are bounded by bio principles. Model: a simplified, idealized +/ explanatory representation of a more complex system, model of long term memory, declarative: semantic, episodic, nondeclarative: perceptual motor, cognitive skills.
