1. If a behaviorist how explain psychology
a) If a behavior is rewarded there is a tendency to repeat that behavior
b) What is the basis of your explanation
2. If you were not in a psychology class and thinking as you normally do, how would you explain it. How are these explanations different?
3. How can you tell which of the explanations are correct?
A. General
1. Bring a bag with an object (hard to recognize)
a) What is it?
b) Seek help if can’t figure it out.
c) How?
d) How did you seek help?
2. What is a metaphor?
3. Why do we use them?
4. Currently there are two primary analogies in Cognitive Psychology
B. The Computer Analogy
1. In what ways are our cognitive functions like a computer?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this analogy?
1. What is a neuron
a) What are the parts of it
b) What can it do
c) What are the function of the dendrites
d) Axon
e) Terminals
2. What is attractive about this analogy
3. What are people trying to do with this analogy that is very different from those using the computer analogy?
4. It is not proper to think of this as really more biological