PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Orienting Response, Echoic Memory, Connectionism

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Assignment (due feb 2) information posted soon - no need for library research - just need information provided in the course. Memory(cognitive perspective) (modules that are in the syllabus are correct) Stress the importance of external rather than internal behaviors. Stresses s-r relationships and argues they are stamped in . Stamped in - let"s say you encounter a stimulus. When you respond, neurons respond, so after a while you get a physical neurological connection so that the next time you encounter the stimulus you respond automatically because of the physical (neurological) connection that has been made. It"s call mechanistic behavior - this is the early behaviorist perspective. Cognitive perspective took this and went 1 step farther. Those from the cognitive perspective say yes there is a s-r relationship but more specifically, it is a s-o-r relationship - something going on before the response - what that is - the. Cognitive process (thinking) - evaluate, interpret, predictions, expectations.