PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Turing Machine
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Recall watson"s behaviorism: focus on behavioural phenomena not the mind"s content or functions, collect objective data, apply principles of psychology to predict and control human behaviour. The neobehaviorism of clark l. hull (1884-1952) and edward c. tolman (1866-1959) superseded watson"s behaviorism in the 1930s and 1940s. Difference from watson: philosophy of science, methodology. Now and then we select a group of facts and draw certain general conclusions about them. Limitations of the inductive approach: what if something exists, but has not been observed, no room for hypotheses to guide verification. The typical procedure is to adopt a postulate tentatively, deduce one or more of its logical implications concerning observable phenomena, and then check the validity of the deductions by observation. For the neobehaviorists: description is important, but so too is imagination! What mental activities support goal-oriented behaviours: representations & cognitive maps, expectations & hypotheses. Latent learning is evidence for this neobehaviorist claim.
