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Historical and cultural conditions that gave rise to the cognitive perspective.
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The cognitive perspective DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS 1Historical and cultural conditions that gave rise to the cognitive perspective CHALLENGES TO BEHAVIOUR -the mind was becoming more and more important (e.g.INSIGHT LEARNING-Kohler and his "Sultan the Ape" ›the work was difficult to ignore) -the existence and importance of mental processes had to be acknowledge›not ignore them any more IMPACT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR -break with traditional theories (behaviourism,psychodynamic) -more emphasis on free will (room for cognitive decision making) CULTURAL VARIATION IN THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE -the language for describing the mind was available -the mind was viewed as an information processor 2.CONTRIBUTION OF THE COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF BEHAVIOUR, AND ITS CURRENT STANDING EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF HYPOTHESES For this we can give as an example, the experiment of CRAIK and TULVING (1975). The aim was to find out which different forms of processing of verbal information might affect recall. The method was that the participants were presented with lists...
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