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Empirists
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Those who adhere to the philosophy that knowledge exists only after experience, which typically involves sensations and perceptions
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Nativists
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Those who adhere to the philosophy that the mind produces ideas which are not derived from experiences.
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Period of Enlightment
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The Renaissance. Science started working without fear of repercussions from the church.
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Internal Representations
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A transformation of environmental cues into meaningful cognitive symbols of the perceived stimuli. Three Types: direct sensory events; events that are stored in memory; and transformation of events in the thinking process.
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Psychology
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Emerged from philosophy to form a discipline based on testable hypothese and empirical data rather than on philosophical speculation
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Representation of Knowledge
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The extent to which knowledge is adequately stored and later retrieved.
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Introspection
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Wundt, in Germany. Tichenor, in the US. "Thinking about thinking" A technique of self observation.
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Brentano
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emphasized the process or acts of mental reps. considered comparing, judging and feeling to be proper topics of psychology.
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William James
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Established first psych lab in US. Wrote Principles of Psychology (1890). Developed a well reasoned model of the mind.
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Behaviorism
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A theory of animal and human learning that focuses on objectivelty observable behaviors and discounts mental activities.
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Cognitive Map
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A picture or image based on spatial knowledge of a stimulus or physical situation
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Tolman, Edward C
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Developed the concept of a cognitive map. Rats developed "a picture" of the environment used to find the goal.
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Bartlett
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Found that an important aspect of remembering a story is the participants attitude toward the story.
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Metaphors
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A statement that allows understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain.
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Models
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Schemes or structures that correspond to real objects, events, or classes of events, and that have explanatory power.
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