The Cognitive Revolution | Patron Topic Pick!

Let's talk about cognitive psychology a little. Specifically, where it came from and why.

A couple things that didn't make the cut:
- Hippocampus place cells
- Neisser's book on cognitive psychology

For more human factors aka applied cognitive aka engineering psychology aka ergonomics aka other things I'm probably forgetting, check out "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman.

And I'm still learning the newer version of Premiere. The SPORTS title cards weren't what I was going for, but when the first N+1 iterations break the render, you go with what works. Likewise, the lighting test did me dirty, so there were some attempts to fix things in post. So it goes.

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Timestamps
0:00 The Cognitive Revolution
1:59 Scientific revolutions
6:12 Antecedents of cognitive psychology
10:54 Accumulating anomalies in behaviorism
17:51 The crisis
18:33 Paradigm shift: The cognitive revolution
20:59 Cognitive post-revolution
26:18 Conclusions

Scientific revolution launch points

[MrSomethingred]

"Physics is the most pure science."

Meanwhile me assuming spherical cows in a vacuum centred at the origin.

[ShutItKyle]

"Blue-screened my brain."
Those feels.

[pris]

How scientific revolution starts in physics:

'Hm, this is a bit strange. I wonder why it does that...'

[A_Box]

-"I work in IT"
+"What is IT?"
-"...."

[earthbob]

The production value feels really high. I love how far you've come with these. Not gonna lie, I'm very much in love with non-lobster content...

[tuttiFrutiikawaii]

Hi! As a philosophy and possibly psychology student from Brazil, your videos are really interesting! Here psychology is honestly a mess. Too much psychoanalysis and too much emphasis on counseling, as if it was the only thing psychologists do.
And i really like your dark aesthetic and soothing voice.

[GoodStarfish]

Really great to finally have a primer like this. I hope we get to dialectical materialism, or On Theory/ On Practice

[MikeBenko]

I'm much amused by the notion of Geologist in "pure white lab coats". Half the time we are running around licking rocks.

[ronwisegamgee]

This was really informative. Thank you for sharing, Cass.

[Anthro]

I am thoroughly enjoying your delivery and the quality of information! Thank you!

[colonelweird]

Still throwing shade at depth psychology, I see.

But seriously, thanks. This is a nice intro to something that's completely new to me.

[ghost_tess]

From someone who is extremely interested in the neuroscience side of psychology there are almost always simpler explanations than Freudian psychology gives.

The near ubiquitous presentation of Freudian ideas can be frustrating to say the least.

[ShutItKyle]

*Super Nintendo Chalmers voice* SKINNER

[soyborne.bornmadeandundone]

Really dig your takes and love your content. You're pretty deep at how the human mind works. I'm fairly ignorant about this stuff compared to you so it's good to see your chan!

I don't want to tell you what to do but if you ever did a video on dirty shit bag cop brains and how those are the way they are. That would be great! We have been seeing some seriously fucked up and cruel behavior from them over the years and we're seeing it now more than ever in this modern age... Why the fuck are they doing I already have a pretty good idea but something tells me that you of all people would be able to explain it very well and maybe even point out some lesser known things that are very important.

Pardon my frustrations... Been seeing a lot of people who are supposed to protect us act like monsters and it's too much...

[kgdblade]

Nice, I'm only partway through your video and apologies on the rush to comment.

In first part, I wish you would have mentioned Sir Bradford Hill with his 9 rules of causation (sometimes truncated to 7 rules; epidemiologist) and Karl Popper who really pushed forward the value for hypothesis testing and deductive reasoning which later transcended into (and perhaps in peril of Popper's thesis) the Strong Inference Approach (Platt, 1964) that might be ascribed to the current 'baby-stepping' of current biomedical research leading to its patent loving patterns at the consequence of truly shared knowledge in scientific publications. Loved the citation of Kuhn, as a scientist in training, my exposure to Kuhn was through a theology course titled "Religion in an age of science". Your statement that Kuhn is taught in FAHSS but not Science is accurate to my personal experience. That course really made me think hard about the discipline I was studying and I am forever grateful for it, even if the 'other realms of knowledge' advocated by the professor wasn't overly persuasive to me.

Finally, us poor environmental scientists...are we even muddier than biologists and psychologists? I do admit to having much mud on the treads of my soles so I will acknowledge it :)

[DouwedeJong]

I presume the cherry was a joke on the cocktail party problem or do you just not like his face pic? Last year Noam Chomsky on the Lex Friedman podcast provided, to me at least, some details around the limits of human cognition and when science got limited to only empirical theories.

There is so much to learn from this subject. It is so really fascinating and yet it is the most anticlimactic revolution I have ever heard of. Thanks for doing this. I hope you intend to do more about the things you mentioned, explaining thinking, details around memory, history of problem solving, how cognitive psychology helped other fields or the story of behavior studies that was done on the pilots of WW2.

[paulgreenleaf]

You seem pretty cool it's been good to hear a different perspectives. The JBP content caught me eye. JBP is just an western guru using the tactics of the east. Never ending circles of common sense to seem profound. For me science as a solution to the human condition is like holding your breathe and never being able to sigh with relief. I know God seems silly to most. But when I understood this world is fallen and we can't fix it we can only make it better indvuially in our personal life and back yard . . it was a giant relief. Science, medicine, and social politics cause 2 problems for every one solved if you look at the grand scheme. Theres always exceptions. I no longer looked too far out and wide or too far within for emotional relief. I looked in my back yard to see what I could do. I was a broken piece of the mid 2000's opoid crisis, then clinically depressed and scared to leave my room. Forced convalescence was my story. I lost housing and was forced to start acting. . I was lucky enough to get a bed in a pest infested sober living house, a bus pass, and a min wage job. 5 years later I'm independent, own a business I started with $300 and I've found the relief I searched for . . the answers I longed for and the success I thought I'd never achieve. When I tried to stop fixing myself and the world and just did what was in front of me and ask God to take control everything in my life changed. I didnt need a revolution only a revelation.

[donniedorko]

20:26 holy cow, that's a recurrent neural network

[M-CH_]

I'm not a patron, maybe if more stable times com for me I will be, but I think I have an interesting subject to tackle, maybe in collaboration with someone from the field of sociology or anthropology: collective unconscious. Not in the Jungian sense, but in the sense of how presuppositions and implications of some ideas influence thinking of people who had no direct contact with them, but who operate with concepts ( _vulgariter_ : "memes") which were formed in the context of those presuppositios and implications. Example: how people may discover racism for themselves, when they hitherto have ot considered themselves racist, indeed were consciously opposed to racism, but unconsciously opperated on some assumptions both underlying (and therefore perpetuated by) and stemming from racist ideologies.

[nelsonphillips]

show us your prehensive ontological cascade!