PSY270H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Noam Chomsky, Karl Lashley, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Christine Millicent Burton

Document Summary

Historical contribution to cognitive psychology made by the first psychologists. Investigated elements of immediate experience via analytic introspection. Titchener brought wundt"s ideas to america in the form of structuralism. Controversy was related to the studies not being replicable. Concerned with prediction and control through direct observation. Concerned with behavior as a series of stimuli and responses (classical conditioning) How psychology started to move away from behaviorism toward a cognitive approach. Believed behavior is not just a result of cause and effect. Learning can be latent (learned without reward or punishment) Rats in the study learned a cognitive map. Didn"t believe complex human behavior could be a result of stimulus consequences; behaviorism cannot explain complex human behavior such as language. Did not believe language could be simply a result of stimulus and response. Importance of the development of computers to cognitive psychology. Computers were being developed that could perform tasks to replace human performance.