intro to cogni psych Flashcards
create and controls mental functions, a system that creates representations of the world.
mind
the study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information.
cognitive psychology
the belief that much of a human behavior can be understood in terms of how people think.
cognitivism
who considered the brain to be an active, dynamic organizer of behavior?
Karl Spencer Lashley
he did one of the first experiments that today would be called a cognitive psychology experiment.
Franciscus Donders
In 1879, he founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany.
Wilhem Wundt
our overall experience is determined by combining basic elements of experience called sensations.
structuralism
a technique in which trained participants describe their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli.
analytic introspection
a German psychologist who repeated lists of 13 nonsense syllables such as DAX, QEH, LUH, and ZIF to himself one at a time at a constant rate.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Two physiological techniques dominated early physiological research on the mind.
neuropsychology and electrophysiology
the study of the behavior of people with brain damage
Neuropsychology
measuring electrical responses of the nervous system, made it possible to listen to the activity of single neurons.
Electrophysiology
the capacity to learn from experience, and the ability to adapt to the surrounding environment.
Intelligence
In the three-stratum model of intelligence, what strata includes many narrow, specific abilities?
Stratum 1
In the three-stratum model of intelligence, what strata includes various broad abilities?
Stratum 2
