PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jean Piaget, Neuropharmacology, Cognitive Revolution
12 Apr 2017
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History and contributors: throughout psychology"s history, human cognitive abilities have been studied philosophically, and later experimentally. Contributions of j. s. mill, fechner, ebbinghaus, william. James and others have been discussed earlier: sir frederic charles bartlett, one of the first modern cognitive psychologists. Known for his war of the ghosts experiment in. He demonstrated the constructive nature of memory, based on personal, cognitive themes or schema, an organized pattern of thought or framework that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. Cybernetics: cybernetics is the study of the structure and function of information processing systems. Began what is known as information theory, which notes the various transformations information undergoes as it enters a communication system as it operates within the system. His successful nativistic attack on radical behaviourism did much to weaken its influence. Beginnings of contemporary cognitive psychology: george miller.
