PSY 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cogito Ergo Sum, Trichromacy, Associationism
2 Jul 2019
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Various ways you can say your answer. How to move your face to make the noise. Emphasizes information and how it is transformed. Considers stages in which information is transformed. Stages communicate with one another, but one stage doesn"t know what the other is doing. Knowledge originates from linking together info that co- occurs. Limitation: limited to the study of simply sensory processes. Shocked people to see how long it would take them to either push the button or push the correct button for which foot was shocked. Originally, humans were only looking at the input stimulus and then the output response. Introspection was looking inside one"s mind to see what is going on. First psychology labratory with the goal of applying the scientific method to thought (1880s) Goal: description of the irreducible elements of consciousness. Concept that ignores the black box since if you can"t see it then don"t bother talking about it.
