Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology Flashcards
This is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals.
Mind.
This creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning.
Mind.
This is the study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information.
Cognitive psychology.
This is the study of mental processes, which includes determining the characteristics and properties of the mind and how it operates.
Cognitive psychology.
In the 1950s, this movement took place as a response to behaviorism.
Cognitive revolution.
This is the belief that much of human behavior can be understood in terms of how people think. It rejects the notion that psychologists should avoid studying mental processes because they are unobservable.
Cognitivism.
He considered the brain to be an active, dynamic organizer of behavior. He sought to understand how the macro-organization of the human brain made possible such complex, planned activities as musical performance, game playing, and using language.
Karl Spencer Lashley.
He did one of the first experiments that today would be called a cognitive psychology experiment. He was interested in determining how long it takes for a person to make a decision and he determined this by measuring reaction time.
Franciscus Donders.
In 1879, he founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany.
Wilhelm Wundt.
The idea that our overall experience is determined by combining basic elements of experience known as “sensations.”
Structuralism.
A technique in which trained participants described their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli.
Analytic introspection.
A German psychologist who used a quantitative method for measuring memory.
Hermann Ebbinghaus.
He conducted the “Little Albert” experiment.
John Watson.
He came up with the concept of “classical conditioning.”
Ivan Pavlov.
He came up with the concept of “operant conditioning.”
B.F. Skinner.
