Ch. 1 : Origins of Cognitive Neuroscience and Information Processing Flashcards

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Definition of Cognition

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The study of the act of thinking - thinking about thinking

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Rationalism

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  • knowledge comes from observation, logical steps

- there is an innate nature to our minds

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Plato

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  • earliest philosopher to consider the human mind

- rationalism

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Empiricism

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  • All knowledge comes from experience and observation

- thought is associations based on observation

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Aristotle

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  • combined philosophical and scientific approaches

- empiricism

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Structuralism

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  • identify building blocks of consciousness through analytical introspection
  • Wundt and Tichener
  • emphasized controlled observation
  • linked to empiricism
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Wilhelm Wundt

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  • first psychology lab
  • focused on introspection
  • structuralist
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Edward Titchener

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  • established american experimental psychology

- structuralist, used empirical methods

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Functionalism

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  • why does the mind work

- how are the functions of the mind adaptive

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William James

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  • Functionalist
  • consciousness is personal and changing
  • promoted experimentation
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contribution of functionalism to cog psych

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emphasis on functions applications and experimentations

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behaviorism

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  • shifted focus from mind to behavior
  • focus on the observable
  • shifted to animal research
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B.F. Skinner

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  • behaviorist
  • thought behavior is contingent on reinforcement (rewards/punishments)
  • OPERANT CONDITIONING
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Operant Conditioning

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Skinner; shows how behavior is determined thru reinforcement of rewards/punishments

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Problems with behaviorism

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  • poverty of stimulus

- if we learn language through operant conditioning, how do we produce phrases we never heard

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Ulric Neisser

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father of cognitive psych

-internal mental processes could be studied and measured

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tenants of cognitive revolution

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-break cognition into information processing steps

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assumptions of cognitive psychology

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  • the mind is a processing system, performs specific computations
  • information flows from 1 step to the next
  • processing takes resources and time
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information theory

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-function of info is to reduce uncertainty
-amount of info is inversely related to its probability of occurance
(less likely, more info)

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William Hick

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-established relationship btwn reaction time and information content

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Hick’s experiment

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display of ten lamps. more lamp possibilites = slower reaction time

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Hick’s Law

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equation showing that the more information contained in a signal, the longer it takes to make a correct response

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Ray Hyman

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similar to Hick’s light experiment. manipulated sequential probabilities.

  • with more stimulus uncertainty, there was a slower reaction time
  • lower sequential probability, slower reaction time
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Decision Fatigue

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too many options = bad choices

  • the more choices, the more energy expended in choosing
  • making a choice btwn lots of options has a cognitive energy depletion
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Webster and Thompson
info processing has limits - air traffic controllers, simultaneous messages, binaural messages - could identify both call signals, only one of the other messages
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information processing
actively select the info to process
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Parts of the Broadbent Filter Model
1. Senses 2. Short term memory 3. FILTER (selected on physical basis) 4. Final input
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channel capacity
refers to the maximum amount of information that can be processed.
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Main idea of Broadbent filter model
- processing takes time and resources - channel capacity; there is a maximum amount of into that can be processed - ∆ must be stages and buffers before final selection
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How does Broadbent filter model select information for processing? What happens to the information not selected?
- selects based on physical characteristics | - information not selected by the buffer decays over time
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Broadbent's Dichotic listening test - description - results
- pairs of digits presented binaurally - participants asked to repeat numbers back - repeating binaural pairs much harder than mono - ears are separate channels - switching between ears consumes energy, decays information in buffer faster
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Description of Waugh Norman Model
-informations and processed in stages Primary memory: environmental stimulus Secondary Memory: where rehearsed info from primary is sent everything else forgotten related to BROWN PETERSON
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Brown Peterson task
related to Waugh Norman model of info processing, rehearsal is key - given a set of nouns to remember, given intervening distractor task, - without rehearsal, recall is much worse
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Ecological Validity
- cannot study cognition in a laboratory. too many stimuli in the real world - reaction against earlier info processing studies - context affords what we can do/perceive - J.J. Gibson
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Schemas
Neisser again - we have schemas of situations that direct our exploration of the environment - unexpected outcomes are then incorporated into the schema
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Perceptual Cycle
schemas guid exploration of world, and are in turn shaped by what is found
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Cognitive Ethology
cognitive processes depend on specific situational context of the thinker -environment matters