The Cognitive Revolution Flashcards
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What is the Cognitive Revolution?
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The Cognitive Revolution, starting in the 1950s, reintroduced the mind as the proper subject of psychology, but with the addition of rigorous experimental methods developed in behaviorism.
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What are the ‘big five’ schools of thought in psychology?
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The five major schools were structuralism, functionalism, Gestalt psychology, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis. These schools are often seen in a thesis-antithesis-synthesis model.
