Cognitive Psychology Lecture 01 - Part 2 (Introduction to Cognitive Psychology) Flashcards
What is cognitive psychology?
Cognitive Psychology is the science of how we think. It’s concerned with our inner mental processes such as attention, perception, memory, action planning, and language. Each of these components are pivotal in forming who we are and how we behave
What is perception
Perception in psychology can be defined as the sensory experience of the world, which includes how an individual recognizes and interpreter sensory information. This also includes how one responds to those stimuli. Perception includes these senses: vision, touch, sound, smell, taste, and proprioception.
What is memory?
Memory is today defined in psychology as the faculty of encoding, storing, and retrieving information (Squire, 2009). Psychologists have found that memory includes three important categories: sensory, short-term, and long-term.
What are the 6 areas of cognitive psychology?
The DSM-5 defines six key domains of cognitive function: complex attention, executive function, learning and memory, language, perceptual-motor control, and social cognition.
What is reductionism in psychology?
In psychology, breaking complex things down into simple parts can be helpful for looking at behavior from a different perspective. Reductionism, or reductionist theory, is the idea that complicated behaviors and phenomena can be better explained by “reducing” them into small, simple piece
Who is the founder of cognitive psychology?
Ulric (Dick) Neisser was the “father of cognitive psychology” and an advocate for ecological approaches to cognitive research. Neisser was a brilliant synthesizer of diverse thoughts and findings. He was an elegant, clear, and persuasive writer.
How important is cognitive psychology to the field of psychology
Cognitive psychology helps us to understand ourselves and others, learn more effectively, change unwanted behaviors, and help in managing some mood disorders. This research has opened up new schools and ways of treating mental illness.
Why the cognitive process is important to everyday life?
The brain does an enormous amount of cognitive work all the time, taking in information and transforming it, storing it, recovering it, and putting it to work. Such processing allows us to interact intelligently with the world around us.
