PSYC 105 Lecture 1: Notes
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Cognition: anything as input into the world and the different experiences. Scope of cognitive psychology: use experiences in the world and understandings to subconsciously make inferences to break down a set of sentences. Presentation of rat was paired with loud banging of metal pipes so baby cried. Behaviorism: behavior only shaped by nurture, not nature: doesn"t matter the way you were born, only by the experiences from the outside world. Decline of behaviorism: chomsky (1959): children learn language through other ways besides imitation and reinforcement. The misbehavior of organisms: animals trained and according to behaviorism, animals should obey, but studies show that animal"s instincts overruled the conditioning principles. Tolman (1938): rats put in a maze to navigate and find food. According to behaviorists, rats could only find food through one pattern, no matter where they are placed. However, the rats had a spatial recognition of the maze and found the food by breaking the pattern.
