Cognitive Psychology Defined Flashcards
the study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information.
Cognitive Psychology
These people study how people perceive various shapes, why they remember some facts but forget others, or how they learn language.
Cognitive psychologists
Why study Cognitive Psychology?
- We may have a better understanding of where we are heading
- We can learn from past mistakes
It is a developmental process where ideas evolve over time through a pattern of transformation
Dialectic
What are the Patterns in Dialectic
- A thesis is proposed
- An antithesis emerges
- A synthesis integrates the viewpoints
A ____ is a statement of belief. After a while, certain individuals notice apparent flaws in it.
Thesis
It is a statement that counters a previous statement of belief
Antithesis
It integrates the most credible features of each of two (or more) views.
Synthesis
Why is Dialectic important?
For the reason that, we may be tempted to think that if one view is right, another seemingly contrasting view must be wrong.
It seeks to understand the general nature of many aspects of the world, in part through introspection, the examination of inner ideas and experiences
Philosophy
from intro-, “___, ___,” and -spect, “___”
inward, within; look
from ___-, “inward, within,” and -__, “look”);
intro-; -spect
_____ seeks a scientific study of life-sustaining functions in living matter, primarily through empirical (observation-based) methods.
Physiology
What are the two approaches in understanding human mind of the Earliest roots of Psychology?
Philosophy and Physiology
It is the examination of inner ideas and experiences
Introspection
The two Greek Philosophers that profoundly affected modern thinking in Psychology and many other fields
Plato and Aristotle
He was a rationalist Greek Philosopher
Plato
A/an ____believes that that route to knowledge is through thinking and logical analysis. That is, a _______ does not need any experiments to develop new knowledge.
Rationalist
A rationalist who is interested in cognitive processes would appeal to ______ as a source or knowledge or justification
Reason
He was a naturalist Greek Philosopher
Aristotle
A/an ______ believes that we acquire knowledge via empirical evidence- that is, we obtain evidence through experience and observation.
Empiricist
This is where we obtain evidence through experience and observation.
Empirical evidence
He was also a rationalist and viewed the introspective, reflective method as being superior to empirical methods for finding the truth.
Rene Descartes
I think, therefore I am
Cogito, ergo sum