CGSC 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Turing Machine, Classical Conditioning, Information Processing
7 Jan 2017
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Chapter 1 the prehistory of cognitive science. Cognitive science became an established part of the intellectual landscape in the 1970s. This chapter will go back to the 1930s-50s to review the prehistory of cognitive science. The guiding idea of cognitive science is: mental operations involve processing information. This chapter looks at four developments: the reaction against behaviourism in psychology. Behaviourism was influential in psychology and it assumes that. Conditioning is an example of behaviourism (pavlov and his dogs) This way of thinking leaves very little room for the field of psychologists should not study what they cannot observe. Psychology is really a study of behaviour cognitive science to study the cognition of the mind. It couldn"t even get started until behaviourism was no longer the dominant approach in the psychology field. Some of the findings turned out to be useful for cognitive scientists in the future.
