4. What is the \"cognitive revolution?\" How is cognitive psychology different f

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4. What is the "cognitive revolution?" How is cognitive psychology different from behaviorism? What impact has cognitive psychology had on the field of modern psychology? 5. Describe the role played by women in the history of the field of psychology. Discuss some of the obstacles which have prevented many women, and hindered others, from achieving equal status with males as respected professionals. What is the current status of women in the field of psychology? Answer any 2 of the following questions from this lecture in this section. h al 1. Define naturalistic observation. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this research technique? How is naturalistic observation useful in research? 2. Expalin what case studes are and how they are useful to psychologists. What are the major advantages and disadvantages of this type of research?

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The cognitive revolution was an intellectual movement that began in the 1950s as a study of the mind and mental processes of perception,thinking, memory, Language, intelligence etc. which became known collectively as cognitive science. it encompassed the fields of education, experimental psychology, linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience.

It became the dominant form of psychology in the 1950s and 1960s in an intellectual era  pioneered by a number of scholars from Harvard University, including George Miller, Noam Chomsky, Jerome Bruner, and Ulric Neisser whose research in artificial intelligence and information processing contested the behaviorist perspective in Psychology. Unlike behaviourism which focused on understanding and predicting explicit observable stimulus-response chains, The Cognitive Revolution stressed on the significance of cognitive processes and covert, neurobiological functioning of the mind and how human beings process information. The Cognitive Revolution thus challenged the monopoly of behavioral experiments in conditioning as the only source of knowledge about human lives and expanded the field of psychology towards an interdisciplinary approach where research in computer science, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and linguistics were given an equally important place in building knowledge about human functioning.

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