Re: Some brain questions i need help with

From: AlphaOmega2004 (OmegaZero2003_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:47:04 -0700

"Glen M. Sizemore" <gmsizemore2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> WK: Thanks for the info - I had read this somewhere, but couldn't recall
it.
> Now if I had "stored" the info, I shoulda coulda done that, no problem.
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> Just how do the cognitivists explain inability to recall? Sergio - you
> got an answer?
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> GS: Hwe don need no steenking mentalists. I was indoctrinated into
> mainstream psychology too! And I sometimes teach intro.
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> The answer in short is: capacity limitations, proactive and retroactive
> interference, retrieval failures (it is still there, but the "retrieval
cue
> doesn't work), and good ol' forgetting. I'm sure there are others. But,
> then, you did ask for explanations and not names. But in cognitive
"science"
> to name is to explain.

Whereas in rad. behaviorism, to babblefroth is to explain - as rad.
behaviorism is bereft of explanatory value.

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> "Wolf Kirchmeir" <wwolfkir@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:7jA3d.7961$bL1.330876@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
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