Summary Of "Cognitive Science" By María T. Lodieu - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGYThe PROGRAM of COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY is to produce a NEW PARADIGM that DISPLACES BEHAVIOR. The latter school had been hegemonic for a decade in American psychology. Those who later formed cognitive psychology thought that ASSOCIATIONISM AND BEHAVIORAL EMPIRISM COULD NOT UNDERSTAND COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIORS. The foundation of this current of psychology is given from the appearance of "COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY" by ULRIC NEISSER.
However, many of those that would later become a central part of the cognitivist approaches already appeared in "STUDY OF THINKING" by JEROME BRUNER, JACQUELINE GOODNOW and GEORGE AUSTIN and also in "PLANS AND STRUCTURE OF BEHAVIOR" by GEORGE MILLER, EUGENE GALLANTER and KAR