CHAPTER 1 Flashcards
Study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information
cognitive psychology
might study how people perceive various shape, why they remember some facts but forget other or how they learn language
cognitive psychologist
both normal and abnormal minds
minds and cognitive
human, animal, machines
subject of cognitive
mental shortcuts we use to process information
heuristics
developmental process whereby ideas are evolve over time
dialectic
dialectical process
thesis, antithesis, synthesis
plato
covert behavior
nativist
seek to understand general nature of many aspects of the world
philosophy
aristotle
overt behavior
constructivist
seeks a scientific study of life sustaining functions in living matter
physiology
obsevartional based
through evidences
how people think
empirical or impricism
believes that route of knowledge is through thinking and logical analysis
nativist
rationalist
we acquire knowledge via empirical evidences
john locke
empiricist
cogito ergu sum
dobito ergu sum
rene descartes
tabula rasa
blank slate
john locke
seek to understand the structure of the mind
elementary process of perception
founder wilhelm wundt
structuralism