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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences: Revolution and Crisis
Consciousness, Life, and the Brain
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Cognitive Revolution
The 1950s — the cognitive revolution against behaviorism (Skinner): psychology is a science of unobservable mental processes, not only of behavior. Chomsky, Miller, Neisser. The brain is a computer that processes information according to rules.
Then — neural networks, connectionism: information processing is parallel, distributed, without explicit rules. This changed the understanding of how intelligence works.
Reproducibility Crisis
2011–2015: scandal in psychology. Attempts to reproduce 100 classic psychological studies — only 36% are successful. This is the “reproducibility crisis”: statistical manipulations (p-hacking), publication bias, small sample sizes.
Behavioral economics (Kahneman, Thaler) is also under scrutiny: the “priming effect” of Bargh was not reproduced. “Ego depletion” — is under doubt.
Thought question: What psychological concepts do you use in management? Have you checked how well they are supported by current data?
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