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Cognitive Psychology
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branch of Psychology concerned w/ the scientific study of the mind
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What is the mind?
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involved in memory, problem-solver, used to make decisions; consider possibilities, healthy mind, valuable, need to use, intelligent or creative
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How did they study the mind?
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Donders Pioneering Experimen- wanted to know how long it takes to make a decision
RT experiment choice RT-simple RT=Time to make a decision 1/10 sec. to make a decision |
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reaction time
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how long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus
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think fast
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simple
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repeatedly press button when light goes on
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choice
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push left button when left light goes on and right button when right light goes on
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decisions to make
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What was Wundts Psychology laboratory?
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Made the first lab in Scientific Psychology
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structuralism
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overall experience is determined by combining basic elements of experience
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Analytic Introspection
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a technique in which trained subjects describe their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli
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Who was Ebbinghaus?
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Read list of nonsense syllables
short intervals=fewer repetitions to relearn forgetting curve |
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Savings curve
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memory drops rapidly for the first two day after initial learning
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Whats Ebbinghaus' s memory experiment?
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wanted to determine the nature of memory and forgetting
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forgetting curve
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Savings
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(original time to learn the list)-(Time to relearn the list after the delay)
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Whar did Watson find?
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Behaviorism:
1) reject introspection as a method 2) observable behavior (restrict Psychology to behavioral data) |
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What's operate conditioning?
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how behavior is strengthened by the prescription of positive reinforces, such as food or social appraisal
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What's classical conditioning?
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how pairing one stimulus with another causes changes in the response to the neural stimulus
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What does this have to do w/ cognition?
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A behaviorist Tolman was more intrigued to the study of cognition (he used behavior to infer mental processes)
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information-processing approach?
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an approach that traces sequences of mental operations involved in cognition
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What is artificial intelligence?
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making a machine behave in ways that would be called intelligent if a human were behaving
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Whats the logic theorist?
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Newell and Simon demonstrated this, this program was able to create proofs of mathematical theorems that involve principles of logic
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Whats the process models?
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represent the processes that are involved in cognitive mechanisms
boxes represent specific processes and arrows indicating connections |
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Whats the structural mode?
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representations of a physical structure
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When did the Cognitive Revolution occur?
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In the 1950s switch from behaviorists stimulus- response to operation of the mind
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Who was Wundt?
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-First Psychology Lab
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Attitude
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favorable or unfavorable evaluation reaction toward something or someone (often rooted in one's belief, and exhibited in one's feelings and intended behavior) (go a lot with affect heuristics)
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Role
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a set of norms that define how people in a given social position ought to behave
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Cognitive Dissonance
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division of thoughts and actions, creating a frustration between two people
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