PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Electrodermal Activity, Monism, Classical Conditioning

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Michael Hardt

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An organism might know something but it will only be shown in performance (ex: there is no way to independently access if we have learnt lecture material taught unless tested on exam) How can we have something in our head that we can"t measure in behaviour but then say all we have to describe learning is behaviour: behaviourism: Started end of 1900"s, german people studying in perception studied behaviourism mechanisms. Reaction to introspection (you can know something about how brain works by just sitting and reflecting on it) and folk psyc. Can"t replicate your own introspections, its private there is no way to test because of inaccessibility. Behaviour is any publicly accessible behaviour that we can collect. Galvanic skin response(gsr) conductance of skin when person is nervous (used in lie detectors when you"re anxious) Fmri: brain scanning using magnetic weakness is can"t measured second by second (poor temporal function)