HUMAN APPROACH Flashcards
___ is the study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information.
Cognitive psychology
A ____ ______might study how people perceive various shapes, why they remember some facts but forget others, or how they learn language.
cognitive psychologist
_____ we make judgments on the basis of how easily we can call to mind what we perceive as relevant instances of a phenomenon
Availability heuristic
In cognitive psychology, the ways of addressing ___ issues have changed, but many of the fundamental questions remain much the same.
fundamental
The progression of ideas often involves a ______.
dialectic
_____ is a developmental process where ideas evolve over time through a pattern of ____.
dialectic
transformation
____ is a statement of belief.
thesis
_____ is a statement that counters a previous statement of belief
antithesis
_____ integrates the most credible features of each of two (or more) views.
synthesis
Two Greek philosophers, ____ and his student _______ , have profoundly affected modern thinking in psychology and many other fields.
Plato
Aristotle
Plato was a ____.
rationalist
A ______ believes that the route to knowledge is through thinking and logical analysis.
rationalist
rationalist does not need any _____ to develop new knowledge
experiments
Aristotle (a naturalist and biologist as well as a philosopher) was an ____.
empiricist
_____ believes that we acquire knowledge via empirical evidence that is, we obtain evidence through experience and observation
empiricist
The contrasting ideas of rationalism and empiricism became prominent with the French rationalist _______ and the British empiricist ______ .
René Descartes (1596–1650)
John Locke(1632–1704)