COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Flashcards
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What is Cognititive psychology?
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- examines how we take in information from the world around us and how we mentally process this information in order to make a response
- e.g action or emotion
- areas such as memory, perception, thinking, language, attention, problem-solving, decision amiing and ai
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How did interest in cog psych begin?
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- began to grow during WW2
- for e.g effecient aircraft cockpit design
3
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what was a dominat approach during WW2 in experimental psychology.
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Behaviourism
4
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How was researched conducted for cog psychology
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- as we cannot directly observe the mental processes going on in our brain, researchers use models and theories.
- we use these to make predictions
- largely uses research methods of experiments and case studies of brain damaged individuals
