Talk:Cognitive revolution
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The article claims that cognitive psychology has had success predicting behavior? What are these successes? I'm personally not aware of any cases in which psychologists have developed equations that predict behavior with any accuracy. It's very clear that the cognitive approach is dominant among psychologists and others, but if we are going to claim that it has been objectively successful in predictions we should give the readers some indication of what those are.SmartPatrol (talk) 04:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
I edited a little for POV and prescriptive grammatical errors. 128.36.66.155 23:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)Luke
No mention of Noam Chomsky? [unsigned comment by 65.190.199.57, 05:58, 22 January 2006]
This article is too heavy on defense of and apologetics for behaviorism and the behaviorist point of view. It should be more balanced. Furthermore, the behaviorist position has been undermined in important ways by empirical results, and the cognitive perspective has gained a clear ascendancy. That should be reflected in the article. -DoctorW 03:16, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
There should also be some mention of the interplay between neuroimaging technology and the fall of behaviorism. One of the primary tenets of behaviorism assumed that the internal state of the brain was unobservable, which doesn't hold if you can observe the brain directly. By the 80's, neuroimaging was very much in full swing, and has grown dramatically as a field since (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroimaging#History) 11:36, 31 May 2006 Subscript text
