PSYC 308 Study Guide - Final Guide: Observational Learning, Cognitive Revolution, Chinese Whispers

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: Jack Martin

Document Summary

Icwa #3: discuss three precursors to cognitive psychology and explain how each was related to the emergence of cognitive psychology during the last half of the twentieth century. Cognitive psychology is concerned with how individuals perceive, process, and retrieve information. Since it addressed the internal processes and complex learning that behaviourism ignored, it replaced behaviorism as the principal school of psychology in. Although it thrived in the late 1960"s and 1970"s, the cognitive revolution began in the mid 1950"s. While the advent of computers assisted the rise to cognitive psychology, gestalt psychology, tolman"s purposive behaviourism , and bartlett"s memory studies are the three main precursors. Gestalt psychologists use a holistic approach, which emphasizes the unified whole as well as numerous, non-additive, and flexible relations of the parts. Focusing on relational context, gestalt psychologists like kohler demonstrated that perception and cognition are active parts of human experience: step away from behaviourism and towards processing theories.