history Flashcards
Describe the historical and current foundations of cognitive psychology Understand the importance of representations in Cognitive Psychology
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What is introspection
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Monitoring our own thought processes to understand how they work
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What is behaviourism
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Measuring behaviour and seeing how that links to our thought processes
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Issues with behaviourism
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behaviourism is built on learning but stimulus response associations but we can speak sentences we haven’t heard before so we must have thought processes to form them
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What are the three concepts of the cognitive revolution
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Information processing, decomposition, representation
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What is representation
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Information in the brain is stored in different ways depending on the piece of information pictures, symbols, words, numbers etc).
