Ch. 1: Intro Flashcards
What is applied research?
Scientific research that is concerned with the end-goal of developing a solution to a problem.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
A branch of computer science and engineering concerned with building machines that can perform human-like intelligent behaviors.
What is basic research?
Scientific research that is concerned with trying to understand the world and its phenomena, without regard to a specific end-use of this knowledge.
What is cognition?
The sum of mental activities resulting in the acquisition of information from the environment, processing that information, and using it to make a behavioral decision.
What is cognitive psychology?
A field of psychology concerned with studying intelligence through the observation of behaviors.
What are human factors?
A field of psychology concerned with applying scientific findings to the design of systems that people interact with.
What is naturalistic observation?
A research technique in which the behaviors of people or other organisms are observed as they occur in their natural environment, without any experimental intervention.
What is neuroscience?
The field of science concerned with the study of the brain and related physiological systems.
