CHP. 1 - Science of the Mind

Question 1

Introspection

Answer 1

Focus on studying conscous mental events
* “looking within”
* not scientific enough

Question 2

Behaviorism

Answer 2

Focus on studying observable behaviors & stimuli
* avoided anything mental
* not broad enough

Question 3

Latent learning

Rat maze example

Answer 3

Learning involves acquisition of knowledge, not just a behavior

Question 4

Gestalt perception

Answer 4

Considering the “whole”
* perceivers shape their own experiences

Question 5

Synesthesia

Ratatoille

Answer 5

A joined feeling; the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.
* ex. taste-color
* tend to have better memory

Question 6

Cross-talk hypothesis

Answer 6

Areas of the brain that represents the color & the number are adjacent to each other in the fusiform gyrus