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There was one big problem with Wundt’s introspectionism: It didn’t work. There was the problem of training people to introspect—a problem of the method they used—and there were other methodological problems. A more basic problem was that the introspectionists didn’t come up with any interesting results
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A behaviorist would shrink from the term strategy because a strategy is not observable.
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The empiricists were also associationists. Associationism holds that knowledge originates from simple information from the senses and that this sensory information can be combined into more complex ideas. You know what an apple looks like because you have seen an apple before
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Descartes discussed perception for the same reason as the Greeks—to understand where knowledge comes from. Other philosophers, notably George Berkeley, discussed perception as part of the empiricist versus nativist argument. Berkeley was an extreme empiricist.
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Therefore, the first question to take up is Why make assumptions? As we’ll see, the answer is that it is difficult or impossible to avoid making assumptions. If that’s true, we should at least be clear about the assumptions cognitive psychologists make.
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