Cog LOA Names Flashcards
Wilhelm Wundt *
(1879) The Father of Psychology, a structuralist who opened the 1st psych lab and the 1st school of psych. One of the 1st to study thought processes scientifically. Very introspective.
William James
A Functionalist w/ Darwin who believed the way people act is due to behaviorism.
Wolfgang Kohler
Psychoanalyst -> behaviourist. wanted to see ape thought process. experimented w/ ape Sultan. Cage, short stick, long stick, banana in sight. “Aha moment”. Problem solving by thinking.
Sir Frederick Bartlett*
Serial Reproduction, “War of the Ghosts”, 4 C’s (concise, coherent, conventional, cliche)
George Miller*
Short Term Memory has limited capacity, magic number 7+-2, chunking.
E.C. Tolman
cognitive maps. do you know where you are in your environment.
Noam Chomsky
L.A.D. how do babies say something they’ve never heard before? Cog LOA. Transactionalism
*Hermann Ebbinghaus
Forgetting curve w/ nonsense syllables (no meaning/visualization)
*Elizabeth Loftus
eyewitness memory. “Memory is Malleable”. car crash video. people and memory are open to suggestion. memory can be altered after event occurs.
*Craik and Lockhart
Elaborate rehearsal. Semantics, visualization, repetition.
Levels of processing.
Aaron Beck
CBT. Cognitive behavioral therapy. Distorted thoughts cause problems
Albert Ellis
RET. ABC’s &D’s. Activating event. Belief faulty. Consequences. Disputation.
Endel Tulving
Episodic memory is unique. Not semantic.
*Walter Mischel
Marshmallow challenge. 1 now, 2 later. Delayed v. Immediate gratification.
Leonard Berkowitz
Frustration/ agression hypothesis
*Leon Festinger
Cognitive dissonance.
When attitudes/ beliefs conflict with actions/ reality. Cult: when can’t change reality. Change beliefs. College movie: $1 + 90 min + bad movie= not so bad. Same +$20 = awful
Jean Piaget
Cognitive development.
Schema: plan for knowing
*Lawrence Kohlberg
Moral revolution/dilemma
72 boys. Age 10,13,16. Asked dilemma Q’s for qualitative answers. Why not what. Moral Development : 3 levels 6 stages preconventional, conventional, post conventional. Avoid punish. Personal gain. Good girl(social approval). Law+order(duty). Social contract. Universal altruism
Hans Eysenck
IQ differences could depend on STM capacity
Sir Francis Galton
1800’s. Eugenics. Intelligence in heritable.
Stanley Schachter
2 factor theory of emotion. Cognitive appraisal
Joyce Sprafkin
Priming, TV, pro social behaviors. Altruism
Lev Vygotsky
ZPD. Zone proximal development. Gap between what you learn by yourself and what you learn from a teacher. Piaget of Russia.
Jerome Bruner
Cognitive revolution. Input of culture. Transactionalism.