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What's so relevant about California Institute of Technology?
It held a conference sponsored by The Hixon Found on Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior in September of 1948
Say something relevant about John Von Neumann
He was a mathematician who bought to The Hixon symposium a striking comparison between the computer and the brain
Who's Alan Turing (profession and legacy)
British mathematician who proposed that a binary code would make possible infinite calculations
What's The logic Theory Machine (explained with relevant evidence)
It is a paper presented by Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, the first proven theorem carried in a computer
Was there any consensus at all in the principles and birth of the new Cognitive science (Please show meaningful evidence)
Definitely! Miller even dares to affirm a specific date: 09/11/1956 during The Symposium of Information Theory held at MIT
Mention one of the many factors that made the behavioristic revolution a plausible one
There was a discomfort with the acceptance of introspection without the means of scientific control
Dissatisfaction with concepts such as will and purpose
There was a desire to explain human behavior using the same constructs used to explain animal behavior
Who's Karl Lashley
He was a psychologist whose speech The Problems of Serial Order in Behavior challenged the dogma held until 1948
What's the greatest achievement of this Revolution?
Bringing the mind back to experimental psychology
What paper was presented by N. Chomsky in 1956 and what is the claim in there?
Three Models of language He said that the information-theoretical approach could not be applied to natural language
someone once said that in the 50's new methaphors were arising... what's that????
Comparisons of cognition to machine processes
When was the Heyday of Behaviorism and what were the "forbidden themes" then?
20's, 30's, and 40's
Planning, Problem-solving, imagination, Creativity, sentiments...
Lashley (who is he?) believed that.....
Any type of human activity theory should account for complexly organized behaviors such as language
What was SLOAN Foundation goal?
To bridge the gap between brain and mind
What was Miller's paper that accompanied Chomsky's? .... What is it about?
The Magic Number Seven Plus or Minus Two
Why did behaviorism propose to redefine psychology?
They said mental events are not publicly observable
When and how did Darwin publish his argument for evolution
The Origin of Species published in 1859. By 1870s, the scientific community and a majority of the educated public had accepted evolution as a fact.
Norbert Wiener devised a more accurate anti-air-craft device (good gun, good projectile, and fire control system). What's the importance of that in our subject?
He and his colleague concluded the analogies between the feedback of engineering devices and the homeostatic processes of the nervous system
Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer science, Anthropology, Philosophy, Linguistics
A Study of Thinking is a publication by Bruner, George Austin and.... about....
Jack Goodenough about Cognitive strategies
Are the grammatical rules that govern sentences behaviors? If they are, explain. if they are not, then what are they
Nope, they are mentalistic hypothesis about the cognitive procvesses responsible for the verbal behaviors we observe
What is the neuronal model and when was it presented?
The operations of a nerve cell and its connections with another nerve cell which could be modeled in terms of logic.
MacCulloch and Pitts in 1943
Cognitive Psychology is the titele of one of the most influential writings of the 60's. Who's the author?
Ulric Neisser
Who is William James... why so important in this discussion?
American psychologist who answered to Wundt structuralism and introspection
Who launched the first Psychological Revolution? Explain the esence of rebeling against
John B Watson
Whose studies in Geneva into the mind of children had inspired fans from all over the world
Jean Piaget's
AI emerged with four founding fathers: Marvin Minsky, _____, ______, and _______.
What was the theme of their work?
John McCarthy, Allen Newell, and Herbert Simon
The problem solving potential of computers.
What Russian guy was one of the first to see brain and mind as a whole entity?
Alexander Luria
Functionalism was a current urging for a pragmatical approach away from structuralism. However a few years after appearance, a radical shift made it vanish... What shift was that?
Behaviorism
Principles of Psychology is a book written by ...... in which he basically claims that.....
William James....Psychological mechanisms are useful if they help us to live better everyday
Why was Kant skeptical of a psychological science?
Because:
1. a science must apply mathematical laws to empirical data. 2. Data must be collected in "real" experiments. 3. Psychology deals with elements that have no spacial dimension, experimentation is not possible.