PSYCH 240 Midterm: Exam 1 Study Guide at UMich
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Introspectionism & problems, behaviorism & problems, cognitive approach & computational view of mind, information processing: introspectionism: just look inside and see what is going on. Problem: difficult to verify, private events, not public, end product of cognitive processing, not the process itself. Accept black box, pavlov- associationism & classical conditioning. Problem: can"t account for diversity of human behavior, limiting science to the observable is a bad idea. Computational vom- the mind is somehow like a computer program. Information processing : the acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Watson, b. f. skinner, little albert, shaping: watson: psychology should study behavior, not the unobservable mind , no difference between animal and human. He did little albert experiment where classical conditioning was shown in humans. Bf skinner: psychology is the science of behavior. Shaping- rewarding successively closer approximations of a desired behavior, useful for teaching new behaviors. Dependent variables, independent variables, main effects and interactions, interpreting graphs.
