chapter 1 Flashcards
cognitive psych
study of mental operations
information-processing approach aka human-processing approach
attempts to identify what occurs during various stages of processing information
james B watson
classical conditioning experiment stimulus response (S-R) approach
Burrhus Skinner
operant conditioning and language acquisition
behaviour decreases/increases based on consequences
ebbinghaus
forgetting curve
William James
wrote textbook on attention, memory, imagery, reasoning
broadbent
filter model of attention
sperling
discovery of iconic memory and info processing model
edward tolman
cognitive map
miller, galanter, pribram
human behaviour is planned
stimulus response
emphasizes the link between a stimulus and a response
bottom up processing
information from sensory store to LTM
top-down processing
information from LTM to sensory store`