INTRO to Cog Psych Flashcards
What is Cognition?
The mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making.
Cognitive psychology is:
concerned with the scientific study of the mind and mental processes.
What functions does the mind create and control?
perception
attention
memory
emotions
language
deciding
thinking
reasoning
Who conducted one of the early cog psych experiments?
What was it?
Franciscus Donders
Testing reaction time in response to a light
Who founded the first psych lab and when?
Wilhem Wundt, 1879
What was Wundt’s first approach?
Structuralism
What is Structurlism?
that our overall experiences are comprised by combining the basic elements of experience that they called “sensations”.
Who wrote Principles of Psychology?
Willam James
What did John Watson introduce to the field?
Behaviourism
How would a behaviourist describe psychology?
it is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behaviour.
What is Behaviourism?
The theory that only observable behaviour is relevant
What was Edward Tolman famous for?
His work with proving that a rat could develop a cognitive map.
Who opposed Skinner’s view that children learn language through operant conditioning
Noam Chomsky
What are the stages of Broadbent’s filter model of attention?
Input
Filter
Memory
Output
Explain the Magical Number Seven Plus or Minus Two
that the capacity for the mind is about 7
What was missing from Neisser’s book?
study of higher mental processes
Study of Physiology of mental processes.
Explain Atkinson and Shiffrins Model of Memory
Input
Sensory Memory
Short tem Memeory—with rehearsal and output
Back and forth to LTM
What is episodic memory?
Memory for events in your life
Semantic Memory?
Facts
Procedural Memory
Memory for physical actions
Neuropsychology?
The study of behaviours in people with brain damage
Electrophysiology?
Techniques used to measure electrical responses of the nervous system.
What and when was the first brain imaging tech?
Positron emission tomograhpy 1976
Injecting radioactive tracers into the bloodstream
How did Ebbinghaus test memory?
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”
