Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is Cognitive Psychology?
The Scientific Study of Human Mental Processes
What do we think of the brain as?
A Computer
What is the Information Processing Model?
Compares the Human brain to a computer process.
Sensory Information = Input Data
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Sensory Information goes through a sequence of mental operations = Programs processes the Input Data
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Perceptions, Memories and behaviors are formed = Output: Product of the processing
What does the word Psyche in Greek mean?
Soul, Mind or Spirit
What two things does psychology come from?
- Questions posed by Philosophy
- Scientific Methods borrowed from the physical sciences
What did Rene Descartes believe about psychology?
Humans Minds consists of two kinds of Ideas
- Innate ideas
- Derived Ideas
What are Innate Ideas?
Innate ideas placed in the human mind by god at birth
What are Derived Ideas?
Ideas acquired through experiences or reflections
What did John locke believe about psychology?
- Mind is a “blank slate” formed by experiences
- Opposed the notion of Innate ideas
- Knowledge should be aqquried by careful observation
- HISTORICAL ROOTS FOR BEHAVIORISM
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Father of Psychology
- Established first psychology lab in germany
- Studied Structuralism
What is structuralism?
Breaking down the mind into the basic elements of complex thoughts
What is Behaviorism?
Focused only on behaviors and experiences to describe human actions and thoughts
What did John B Watson Believe?
- People are born as a blank slate
- Experience is the most important in forming human behavior
- Dismissed the importance of inherited traits and instincts on behavior
What did Ivan Pavlov do?
Classical Conditioning + Behaviorism
What is Classical Conditioning
Classical conditioning is the process in which an automatic, conditioned response is paired with specific stimuli.
