The Cognitive Revolution: Opening the Black Box

We measure inputs and outputs, but ignore the internal mechanics. The Cognitive Revolution: Opening the Black Box lets you explore this hands-on instead of only reading about it.

An introduction to the history of psychology, scientific research methods, and the critical importance of the replication crisis in modern science. It focuses on Replication Crisis, Research Ethics, Scientific Method, History of Psychology from the “Foundations of Psychological Science” section.

The “Psychological School”, “Task Complexity (Operationalized)”, “Stimulus” sliders change the key inputs; a dropdown switches between scenarios; the “Send Stimulus” button run actions or reset the demo. Every change updates the visualization in real time, so you can see exactly how each variable affects the outcome.

Psychology 2e by OpenStax is a comprehensive, open-source introductory textbook designed to provide students with a foundational understanding of the human mind and behavior. The course covers a wide range of topics, fr… This demo is the interactive piece for the “Foundations of Psychological Science” section. Open the full Psychology 2e course wiki at https://www.getlykke.com/explore/public/psychology-2e-c0ca6e48-345f-4c57-92fa-35774756d7ca for notes, flashcards, quizzes and the other demos.

You'll build intuition for Replication Crisis, Research Ethics, Scientific Method, History of Psychology — and, crucially, see how they behave when you change the inputs, which is hard to get from a textbook or lecture on Psychology 2e alone.