Psychology Midterm
Why was the study of consciousness somewhat discouraged in psychology until recently? -
- You can't measure consciousness
-Philosophical Topics
- People want to stick to things they can define and measure
Why is consciousness the hardest problem in science? -
- We can't directly measure it
- If we can't define it, then we can't measure it
- Anesthesia monitors - people wake up in the middle of surgery, you're aware but can't move
Why did behaviorism displace introspection based psychology? -
- Determined to reform psychology
- measuring externally - urine output of a shocked rat
- there is not so much emphasize of theories and speculations
- You can measure behavior
- Make Psychology scientific
- Introspection is unreliable, cant agree on methods
What contributions did behaviorism make to the science of the mind? -
- Practical tools and techniques
- quantifying behavior
- no more philosophical
- Defined well enough to measure
- Practical measures to understand what people and animals do
What is the cognitive revolution in psychology? -
- Moving away from behaviorism
- No more looking at only stimulus and response
- Behaviorists were against mentalistic theories like black box
In the cognitive revolution:
- Access to computers, computer processing
- Use computer as a metaphor to understand the mind
- Scientists went back to the study of the mind
- Lead to researchers coming up with new methods/theories
- We have cognition such as memory, perception, mental processes, reasoning
- Reintroduced mentalistic concepts ***
- Coming up with theories that can't be directly observed
What is "poverty of the stimulus", in the context of children learning language and Chompsky's model
of language accusation? -
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