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clmills979

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Explain what the cognitive revolution was in response to.
 
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Although behaviorists have made numerous contributions to the nature of learning and to experimental psychology, they failed to account for a number of important areas related to cognition. List at least three of these areas.
 
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Answer to Question 1

Answer: (1) researchers understood the limitations of behaviorism and became open to other approaches, (2) technological advances led to new ways to think about mental activity, (3) comparisons of mind to machine, (4) new methods developed to test predictions from computational models leading to more objective measures of mental activity

Answer to Question 2

Answer: (1) some behaviorists rejected all discussion of internal events, (2) could not explain the most interesting human behaviors such as language, and (3) failed to provide insights into the nature of perception, memory, decision making




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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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