PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gestalt Psychology, Noam Chomsky, Empiricism
23 Feb 2015
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Thinking about thinking: mental processes can occur with very little mental awareness, these processes although quickly are quite complex. The assumption that learning, as opposed to innate factors, is the most important factor in determining behavior: wilhelm wundt, first journal devoted to psychological research, believed strongly that the proper topic of study for psychology was. Researches began finding significant instances in which conditioned behaviors, began to change in the direction of instinctive behavior: second world war. They noted that many academic psychologists were involved with the us war effort during second world war. Psychologists that studied animals were put into studying practical things for war: donald o. hebb. By mid 20th century behaviorism had become the dominant approach in learning arena. In the arena of perception gestalt psychology dominated. Verbal learning branch of human experimental psychology, largely replaced by cognitive psychology. Investigated the learning and retention of verbal stimuli. Verbal learners agreed to use objective methods: linguistics language.
