INTRO to Cog Psych Flashcards

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What is Cognition?

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The mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making.

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Cognitive psychology is:

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concerned with the scientific study of the mind and mental processes.

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What functions does the mind create and control?

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perception
attention
memory
emotions
language
deciding
thinking
reasoning

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Who conducted one of the early cog psych experiments?

What was it?

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Franciscus Donders

Testing reaction time in response to a light

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Who founded the first psych lab and when?

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Wilhem Wundt, 1879

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What was Wundt’s first approach?

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Structuralism

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What is Structurlism?

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that our overall experiences are comprised by combining the basic elements of experience that they called “sensations”.

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Who wrote Principles of Psychology?

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Willam James

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What did John Watson introduce to the field?

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Behaviourism

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How would a behaviourist describe psychology?

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it is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behaviour.

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What is Behaviourism?

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The theory that only observable behaviour is relevant

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What was Edward Tolman famous for?

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His work with proving that a rat could develop a cognitive map.

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Who opposed Skinner’s view that children learn language through operant conditioning

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Noam Chomsky

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What are the stages of Broadbent’s filter model of attention?

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Input
Filter
Memory
Output

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Explain the Magical Number Seven Plus or Minus Two

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that the capacity for the mind is about 7

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What was missing from Neisser’s book?

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study of higher mental processes

Study of Physiology of mental processes.

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Explain Atkinson and Shiffrins Model of Memory

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Input
Sensory Memory
Short tem Memeory—with rehearsal and output
Back and forth to LTM

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What is episodic memory?

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Memory for events in your life

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Semantic Memory?

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Facts

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Procedural Memory

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Memory for physical actions

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Neuropsychology?

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The study of behaviours in people with brain damage

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Electrophysiology?

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Techniques used to measure electrical responses of the nervous system.

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What and when was the first brain imaging tech?

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Positron emission tomograhpy 1976

Injecting radioactive tracers into the bloodstream

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How did Ebbinghaus test memory?

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A quantitative method of measuring the time taken memorizing nonsense syllables and then testing the relearning with a specific delay. Time to relearn subtracted from original time to learn was “savings”

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