PSYC 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Verbal Behavior, Neurostimulation, Edward C. Tolman
23 Jan 2018
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12:55 pm: what is cognitive psychology, the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind, study mental processes such as perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, etc. Just responding to a stimulus: when light flashes, hit a button, choice reaction time, respond to stimulus and make a choice, when light flashes on left or right, push button on left or right. Forget most in the first few days, after that it is relatively constant: wundt"s psychology laboratory. Structuralism: experience is determined by combining the basic elements of (perception) Introspection: technique of breaking down psychological experiences into primary sensations, problems with introspection, produces variable results from person to person, hard to verify, we do(cid:374)"t have co(cid:374)scious access to (cid:373)ost of our cog(cid:374)itio(cid:374)s, behaviorism. In verbal behavior, skinner asserted that children learn language through operant conditioning: child sees a dog, says "doggie!
