intro to cognitive psychology

Question 1

Challenge of Cognitive Psychology?

Answer 1

1. many of the mental processes we want to study are complex and not obvious.
2. Need to design experiments to reveal hidden processes.

Question 2

What is the Stroop effect?

Answer 2

-Focus our attention on stimuli even if they are irrelevant to the task.
- Difficulty ignoring the word (interference).

Question 3

Who was Donders?

Answer 3

-Father of reaction time.
- How fast a person can respond.
First time mind and mental processes were measured.

Question 4

Donders Simple reaction time Vs Choice reaction time?

Answer 4

Simple: respond to the presence of a single stimulus.
Choice: more than one possible response.

Question 5

Who was Hermann von Helmholtz?

Answer 5

Unconscious Inference
- Perception can occur outside our conscious awareness.
Perception is based on our knowledge of the world.

Question 6

Wundt?

Answer 6

-Experimental psychology
- First laboratory
Scientific study of the mind.
- Rt experiments
Structuralism
analytic introspection
uncover “hidden processes.”

Question 7

Watson?

Answer 7

Founded behaviourism.
Focus on predication and control of observable.
- rejects introspection
-rejects consciousness

Question 8

50ies Rebirth of Cognition?

Answer 8

Information Processing Approach
- Digital computer
Apply principles of computer processing mental processes.
-Mind processes information in a sequence of stage
Cherry
- Selective attention experiment
- Cocktail party effect