The cognitive revolution

There was a radical scientific revolution during the 16th century. The revolution suggested that the world view should be heliocentric instead of geocentric. What was the name of this world view?

Copernican

What are the two contingencies that aid to define a scientific revolution?

A previous dominant school of thought that is replaced by another one, there must be a central focal point/event that catalysed the change

What are some possible events that catalysed the cognitive revolution?

BF Skinner vs Noam Chomsky, Access to computer technologies and the discovery of legion patients like HM

Skinner vs Chomsky is the most cited event to contribute the cognitive revolution, what did Alan Baddeley comment about the event?

Baddeley suggested that chomsky’s work was just a distraction from the actual work on language happening in europe and the skinner was never taken seriously outside of america

What else did the advent of computers allow for that detracts from the cognitive revolution argument?

The ARPANET (1970s) allowed for the exchange of different ideas making it less likely that cognitive psychology was the only dominant school of thought in psychology

What is the main geographical argument suggesting that behaviourism was not the dominant field in psychology from 1920-1950s?

European academics were creating work that was not behaviourist

What are some examples of european academics publishing non-behaviourist ideas?

1920s: Max Wertheimer Gestalt, Jungian types 1930s: Bartlett’s war of the Ghosts

Which american Psychologists published his works on animal cognition during the 1930s?

Edward Tolman

What was the name of Tolman’s book, published in 1932

Purposive Behaviors in animals and men

When did Skinner suggest that the mind was not a black box but too complex for our analysis?

1974

What other elements of behaviourism was integrated to evolutionary psychology?

Associative learning

What other non-cognitive theories were being developed post 1950?

Gibson ecological approach to perception 1979

Whilst there has been an increase in cognitive psychology, it may not be a revolution as previously thought, what might be a better world this historical phenomenon?

renaissance

What decade was cognitive contingency introduced to classical conditioning?

1980