Psychology / Unit 1 Psych 0019 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Cognitive Revolution
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The idea
The cognitive revolution returned mental processes to psychology by treating them as information processing that can be measured indirectly.
In practice
Reaction time on a rotation task rises with the angle of rotation, so mental rotation is measured without being observed.
Where people slip
This did not overturn behaviorism's methods. It kept the measurement standard and widened what could meet it.
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