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The Cognitive Revolution

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The cognitive revolution returned mental processes to psychology by treating them as information processing that can be measured indirectly.

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Reaction time on a rotation task rises with the angle of rotation, so mental rotation is measured without being observed.

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This did not overturn behaviorism's methods. It kept the measurement standard and widened what could meet it.