Intro Cognitive Psych Flashcards
 What is cognitive psychology?
Experiments of focus on investigating mental processes that rise our perceptions of the world around us
how do we measure cognition or mental activity
Storage, mental activity, transformation and use of knowledge/info
What is metacognition
Thanking about your own thought processes
How did Aristotle contribute to cognition
Studied how humans acquire knowledge through experience and observation (importance of empirical evidence)
How did Willhelm Wundt Contribute to Cognition
He propose introspection and that psychology should study mental processes
What is just gestalt psychology
How humans organize information into meaningful patterns and structures
Propose that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
What is information processing approach
It’s a serial approach to cognition meaning a follow steps
Cognitive psychologists
Are interested in unobservable mechanisms in the mind And develop methods to operationalize these constructs
What is computer science
A new way of thinking about brain processes
Thanking requires us to manipulate our internal representations of the external world 
What are the limitations of artificial intelligence
Computer vision and speech recognition
can be fooled and tells us nothing about human minds
What is neural imaging
Useful tools and tells us where something is happening but not why
What are Brain lesions
When they remove a part of the brain and see the changes caused (Usually due to a car accident aneurysm or damage)
FMRI
(Localization) localize is where the activity happens
EEG/ERP
Track electrical changes and can be used to tell you when activity happening
MEG
Decent localization and good timing signature
