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DDA01_01 Flashcards

1
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What depends on cognition

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Your feelings, actions, and thoughts

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How does cognitive psychology relate to life

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Test, receipe, and childhood

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3
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What does a story require

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Memory, facts, narrative, and knowledge

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4
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What is amnesia

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Brain damage causes the ability to remember certain material

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What happens when you get amnesia

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Difficulty with emotions, forgetting what happened before or after surgery, and questioning our conception of who we are

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6
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What happens if there is no memory

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There is no self

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7
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What is the scope of cognitive psychology

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The scientific study of the acquisition, retention, and use of knowledge

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Is knowledge relevant? If so, how?

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It is relevant because it is the study of how we gain and use knowledge.

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What is self-control

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Depends on our knowledge and memory for various episodes in our past

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10
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What is emotional adjustments

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World relies on memories

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What is the durability to understand stories/experience

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Depends on our supplementing that experience with some knowledge

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How can cognitive psychology help?

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Relevant to our lives and applies to physical movements, social lives, emotions, and other domain

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13
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What is the science of psychology in the 1950s-1960s

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Cognitive psychology

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14
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What did cognitive psychology create a new research

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Memory questions and decision making

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15
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What did Wundt and Bradford study

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The study of conscious mental events, feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and recollections in psychology

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What is the purpose of Wundt’s +Bradford’s study

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Study thoughts through introspection

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What is introspection

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The process through which one looks within to observe and record the contents of one’s own mental life.

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18
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Was introspection successful

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Yeah, but not for long

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19
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Can introspection read unconscious thoughts

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False, it can’t read unconscious thoughts and introspection is limited

20
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Is it true that unconscious thoughts play a role in our mental lives

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True

21
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What does science need

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Resolve disagreements and determine who is right

22
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What does data need

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  1. Organism’s behaviors observable in the right way (watch actions)
  2. Stimuli in the same objective category (measurable, recordable, and physical events)
23
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What does data not need

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No bias, preference, hopes, and expectations
Mentalistic notions can use introspection despite no value

24
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What is the behaviorist movement

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A methodological perspective that dominated American psychology. This perspective emphasized broad principles concerned with how behavior changes in response to different configurations of stimuli (including stimuli that are often called rewards and punishments). In its early days, behaviorists sought to avoid mentalistic terms (terms that referred to representation or processes inside the mind).

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What was the behaviorist movement successful for?

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Successful with how behavior changes in response to various stimuli including the stimuli we call rewards and punishments

26
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Why was the behaviorist movement not successful

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Feelings, actions, and thoughts were guided to how they understand the situation compared to the objective of the situation

27
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Do observable stimuli have a lot in common

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There are no observable, objective aspects of these stimuli, they have little in common

28
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Was studying the mental world workable?

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No, because introspection wasn’t workable to study the mental world

29
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Who created the transcendental method

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Immanuel Kant

30
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What is a transcendental method

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A type of theorizing proposed by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. To use the method, an investigator observes the effects or consequences of a process and asks “What must the process have been to bring about these effects?”

31
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Who uses “Inference to best explanation”? What is its purpose?

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Physicists use it to study objects or events that cannot be observed directly

32
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What did psychologists work in the cognitive revolution

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Study mental process from limitations of classical behaviorism

33
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How did cognitive psychologists use Kant’s logic

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Explain how people remember, make decisions, pay attention, and solve problems.

34
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What did Edward Tolman argue

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Learning involved abstract: the acquisition of new knowledge.

35
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What did B.F. Skinner do

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Language could be understood in terms of behaviors + rewards.

36
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Who disagreed with Skinner’s study

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Noam Chomsky because Skinner didn’t explain the creativity of language and creativity rooted in abstract principles (Rules of Syntax)

37
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What behaviorist movement dominated in the US

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Research psychology

38
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What is the Gestalt Psychology movement

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Based on Berlin in the early decades of the 20th century. The Gestaltists fled to the US leading WWII and became influential figures in their new home

39
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What did Frederic Barlett do

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What shapes and organize our experience within us

40
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What do computer scientists do

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Store, retrieve, do tasks, decision making, and problem solving for memories in 1950s

41
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Was computer scientists successful

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Yes

42
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What did Donald Broadbent do

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computer science language in explaining human cognition on how people focus their attention when working in complex environments

43
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What is response time

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The amount of time (measured in milliseconds) needed for a person to respond to a particular event (a question or a cue to process a specific button)

44
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What is the cognitive neuroscience

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The effort toward understanding humans’ mental functioning through close study of the brain and nervous system

45
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What is the clinical neuropsychology

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The study of brain function that uses as its main data source, cases in which damage or illness has disrupted the working of some brain structure

46
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What is neuroimaging techniques

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Non-invasive methods for examining either the structure or the activation pattern within a living brain.

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