1. IB Psych 12.06.17 Today’s Agenda: Let’s review some concepts
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Today’s Agenda:
Let’s review some concepts
What do you remember?
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3. Not always an accepted belief or practice…
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Cognition: what is it?
Ulric Neisser (1967)
[the “father” of cognitive psychology…] defined cognition as “all the processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used.”
Not always an accepted belief or practice…
What you can’t observe or accurately measure can’t be studied. Must focus on observable BEHAVIORS.

4. Popular in the US early to mid-20th C.
History and Such…
Behaviorist/ism
Popular in the US early to mid-20th C.
Watson (1913) rejected the concept of studying the mind itself. Influenced by Pavlov (1928) and his work with dogs—Classical Conditioning
B.F. Skinner (1938) added another form of conditioning in working with rats and pigeons—Operant Conditioning

5. Classical Conditioning
Pavlov
History and Such…
Classical Conditioning

6. Skinner
History and Such…
Operant Conditioning

7. Classical v. Operant Conditioning: How can we tell
Classical v. Operant Conditioning: How can we tell? How far can we extend this? Is this “learning?”

8. Behaviorism Gives Way to Cognitive Psychology
History and Such…
Behaviorism Gives Way to Cognitive Psychology
Complexity:
It became clear by the 1950’s, to observe behaviors and determine the driving force of psychological phenomena was simply too difficult. Another method of describing learning, behaviors, and understanding was needed.
WWII:
England, the US, and Hitler all used psychologists for training purposes, which wasn’t new…What was new was the attempt to impact the minds of the enemy.
It also provided the GI Bill, allowing a multitude of soldiers to pursue college degrees. Many of these soldiers took to the path of psychology—in fact, for a good number of years the VA was the largest employer of psychologists in the US.
Technology:
Ideas from other sciences were adapted to psychology—couldn’t the scientific method be applied to the mind?!?
Computers gave a model of information processing—could it be applied to the human mind as well?
Advances through the latter part of the 20th C. to the present…neuroscience and objectivity.

9. Will it ever be possible to develop robots that can think like humans?
Compare the human mind and the computer. Create a list of tasks human mind can do and what the computer can do. Does it make sense to you to compare the human mind to a computer?
What do you consider to be the major difference between the computer and a human being?
Have you seen a representation of computers behaving like humans in books or film?
Do you think it might be possible to construct a robot that can process information in the same way as a human?
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