Explain the important differences between the cognitive versus the behaviorist approach to learning.
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. Explain how cognitive psychologists use models to understand cognitive processes.
Explain what behaviorist and cognitive psychologists agree about.
Name and describe the two major theoretical constructs that are central to cognitive psychology and had been ignored by the behaviorists.
Describe Tolman's view of behavior and how it should be studied.
Explain Tolman's maze learning experiment with rats that were rewarded with food, not rewarded, and rewarded beginning on the 11th day. Describe the results, and what Tolman believed they meant.
Explain Tolman's radial arm maze experiment with rats. Describe the procedure, results, and Tolman's explanation for the results.
Name some other psychologists, or groups of psychologists, who were not working in America and were therefore less influenced by behaviorism.
Describe what they were interested in studying and what their accomplishments were. For example, name some of the major concepts that they developed and describe or explain the concepts. Give examples to illustrate the concepts. Explain why these concepts are distinctly cognitive rather than behavioristic.
Describe some findings in verbal learning research that were difficult to account for by a strict behaviorist perspective.
Recognize assumptions of cognitivism about behavior and learning.
Describe the information processing framework. Explain how the computer is used as an analogy to the mind.