PSYC 305 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, Occipital Lobe
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A procedure used by early psychologists in which trained participants described their experiences and thoughts processes in response to stimuli. The ability of a computer to perform tasks usually associated with human intelligence. The approach to psychology, founded by john b. watson, which states that observable behavior provides the only valid data for psychology. A consequence of this idea is that consciousness and unobservable mental processes are not considered worthy of study by psychologists. Time to respond to one of two or more stimuli. For example, in the donders experiment, subjects had to make one response to one stimulus and a different response to another stimulus. A procedure in which pairing a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that elicits a response causes the neutral stimulus to elicit that response. The mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning and decision making.
