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)
In the _____, German philosopher ________ dialectically synthesized the views of ____ and ____, arguing that both rationalism and empiricism have their place.
eighteenth century
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Descartes and Locke
___ seeks to understand the structure (configuration of elements) of the mind and its perceptions by analyzing those perceptions into their constituent components (affection, attention, memory, sensation, etc.).
Structuralism
_____ seeks to understand what people do and why they do it.
Functionalism
______ believe that knowledge is validated by its usefulness.
Pragmatists
____ examines how elements of the mind, like events or ideas, can become associated with one another in the mind to result in a form of learning.
Associationism
_____ associating things that tend to occur together at about the same time
contiguity
______ associating things with similar features or properties
similarity
_____ associating things that show polarities, such as hot/cold, light/dark, day/night
contrast
_____ ____ states that we best understand psychological phenomena when we view them as organized, structured wholes.
Gestalt psychology
we cannot fully understand behavior when we only break phenomena down into smaller parts.
Gestalt Psychology
_____ is the belief that much of human behavior can be understood in terms of how people think.
Cognitivism
_______ brashly challenged the behaviorist view that the human brain is a passive organ merely responding to environmental contingencies outside the individual
Karl Spencer Lashley (1890–1958),
______ proposed the concept of cell assemblies as the basis for learning in the brain. Cell assemblies are coordinated neural structures that develop through frequent stimulation
Donald Hebb (1949)
_____ stressed both the ____ basis and the ____ potential of language.
Noam Chomsky
biological
creative
By ____ a new phrase had entered our vocabulary. ______ is the attempt by humans to construct systems that show intelligence and, particularly, the intelligent processing of information
1956
Artificial intelligence (AI)
—people’s understanding and control of their own thinking processes
Metacognition
____ is the capacity to learn from experience, using _____ processes to enhance learning, and the ability to adapt to the surrounding environment.
Intelligence
metacognitive
_______ ______ a field of study within intelligence research that examines understanding of cultural differences in the definition of intelligence.
Cultural intelligence
According to the _____ model of intelligence, intelligence comprises a hierarchy of cognitive abilities comprising three strata (Carroll, 1993):
three-stratum
____ includes many narrow, specific abilities (e.g., spelling ability, speed of reasoning).
Stratum I
_____ includes various broad abilities (e.g., fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, short-term memory, long-term storage and retrieval, information processing speed).
Stratum II
_____ is just a single general intelligence (sometimes called g).
Stratum III
_____ is speed and accuracy of abstract reasoning, especially for novel problems.
Fluid ability
________ is accumulated knowledge and vocabulary (Cattell, 1971).
Crystallized ability
______ (1983, 1993b, 1999, 2006) has proposed a theory of multiple intelligences
Howard Gardner