PSYCH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fusiform Gyrus, Detection Theory, Depth Perception
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Cognitive psychology: the study of structures and processes of the mind and brain that take in, transform, and use information. Problem: we cannot see everything going on in the mind. We can only observe outputs/ products of the mind (ie. behaviors (hand goes up), physiology (heart rate, pupil size)). Introspection: think about your own thoughts: look inside to see what is going on. Titchener: tried to classify sensations with introspection; used intropspection to create a taxonomy of possible sensations: problem: impossible to know if he was right because they are private events, not public. Objective science requires there to be some way to confirm what someone else has found. Behaviorist: only hypothesize about the relationship between a stimuli and the response (predict the response from stimuli) Watson: thought is just sub vocal speech you talk to yourself, but not out loud;
