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Chapter 1: Study of Human Abilities (Introspection (Separate from…
Chapter 1: Study of Human Abilities 
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Problems with Introspection
Some thoughts are unconscious, inaccessible
Impossible to test objectively
Questions answerable with introspection-limited
Behaviorism: uncovered principles of how behavior changes in response to stimuli, such as rewards and punishments.
Problems with behaviorism
Stimulus-response accounts are not enough
Behavior has a "mental" cause
Perception
Interpretation
Strategy
motivation
Behaviorism
Language of behaviorism
Language=verbal behavior
Memory= learning
Intelligence= behavior on IQ tests
No need for reference to internal processes in order to explain behavior
Solution to problem of psychology as an objective science
Cognitive Revolution
Transcendental method of Immanuel Kant
Work backward from behavioral observations to determine cause (internal and external)
An analogy can be made to a police detective using clues to figure out how a crime was committed
An analogy can also be made to physicist studying electrons, which cannot be directly seen
Another example: the type of output on a computer clues the observer into both the "software" AND the "hardware"
Cognitive psychologists study mental events, but do so indirectly
Measure stimuli and responses
Develop hypotheses about mental events
Design new experiments