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cognition is

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Studying the act of thinking (the mind) and how it affects our behaviors

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the birth of cognition psychology was when

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1950/60s

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Thinking about thinking goes back to where

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Ancient Greece

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Thinking about thinking goes back to Ancient Greece ¤ They studied what

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how human personality and characteristics

were linked to mental processes

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who are the Main players in the philosophy

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Plato and Aristotle

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who was Plato (428 BCE)

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First early philosopher to consider the human

mind

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What did plato think?

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We use logic to understand the world ¤ The world is a ‘reflection of our reality’

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what was the school of thought plato identified with

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Rationalism

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what is Rationalism

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Knowledge comes from observation but is also a priori

¤ There is an innate nature of our minds

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who came up with the term ‘psyche’

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we have this thing that lets us think

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what did Aristotle (384 BCE) do

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Combined philosophical and scientific approaches to thinking

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what was aristotle’s school of thought

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Empiricism

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what is Empiricism

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All knowledge comes from experience and observation

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according to empiricism/aristotle, the basis of thought is what

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The basis of thought is forming associations based on observations
ALL knowledge comes from experience

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Key debates between these philosophers are what

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¤Rationalism vs. empiricism
¤ Innate vs. acquired abilities
¤ Nature versus nurture

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what are the two main theories of psychology in the past

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rationalism and empiricism

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what was rationalism’s inflect in cognitive psychology

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Influence on theory development

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what was empiricism’s inflect in cognitive psychology

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Influence on the experimental method

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what does Indian Buddhism say about cognition

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rejects the notion of a permanent self and suggests to study cognitive events that lead to experience

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when did structuralism start

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started in late 1800

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who is associated with structuralism

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Wilhelm Wundt & Edward Titchener

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what is structuralism

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Focused on identifying the basic building blocks of the conscious
experience with analytic/experimental introspection

Emphasized systematic, controlled observation for understanding
the structure of the mind

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who is Wilhelm Wundt

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Founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research in 1879

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what was Wilhelm Wundt’s goal

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To identify the simplest essential units of mind/consciousness, like the periodic table for chemistry

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what was a main question Wilhelm Wundt asked

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Asked WHAT is the mind made of using introspection

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what is Introspection

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experimental or structured self-observation

Look carefully inward to report sensations and
experiences

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what is Introspection based on

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Based on the idea that we have an active mind that we can pay attention to

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who was a big fan of Wundt

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Edward Titchener

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what did Edward Titchener translate

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Translated Wilhelm Wundt’s Physiological Psychology from

German into English

30
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who Established experimental study of psychology in the States

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Edward Titchener

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what method did Edward Titchener do

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Used Wundt’s method of introspection but was more strict with this method

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what was Edward Titchener interested in

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Only interested in what ‘is’:
¤ The immediate mental experience and not the
purpose of it

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what did Edward Titchener conclude

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All things (sensations, memories) can be broken down into elements
¤ Emphasized associations and how mental elements combined to form complex thoughts
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what are the main points of Structuralism

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¤ Systematic, controlled observation
¤ Focused on understanding the structure of the mind, and higher cognitive
processes.

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what is a criticism of structuralism

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¤ A criticism was that the experimental methods used to study the structure of the mind were too subjective (not asking the right questions)

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when did Functionalism happen

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late 1800

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what was the focus of Functionalism

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focused on WHY the mind works

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what are the main points of functionalism

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Functionalism focused on WHY the mind works
¤ Not interested in breaking down mental states to basic elements
¤ Mental states, including consciousness, are developed based on the way the mind works and how these functions are adaptive

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who is associated with functionalism

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William James

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how was William James pragmatic

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¤ Opposed searching for mental elements

¤ Took a practical approach to studying cognition (why do we have these processes)

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what did James believe

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¤ Consciousness is personal and cannot be broken down into parts
¤ Consciousness is constantly changing. We never have the exact same idea twice
¤ One needs to take an eclectic methodological approach to study the usefulness of knowledge
¤ Promoted experimentation

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what is The contribution of functionalism to Cognitive Psychology

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An emphasis on the functions, applications and experimentations

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what is the problem with functionalism

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Some thought that the true goal of psychology should focus on human behavior … what we can see

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what is behaviourism

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Shifted from a focus on the mind to behavior

¤ Control is with the outside environment
¤ We should only focus on what is observable ¤ Did not consider intervening mental processes
(cognition/unseen mental processes don’t matter, just look at behaviour)

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what kind of research did behaviourism do

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Shifted from human to animal research to be more rigorous

¤ Since the interest is only in overt behavior, this is fine!

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who is associated with behaviourism

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Skinner and John Watson

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explain Skinner and operant conditioning

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¤ Behavior is contingent on a schedule of rewards and punishments (reinforcements) ¤ One alters behavior through reinforcement
¤ Operant conditioning experiments show that we ‘operate’ according to such a reinforcement schedule

(we change out behaviour based on the situation/reinforcement but we do not notice it)

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what is the contribution of behaviourism to psychology

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The contribution to cognitive psychology: An emphasis on rigorous experimentation

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what are the Problems with behaviorism

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¤ Failed to account for many aspects of complex human behavior
¤ Assumed that learning was the same for all individuals (relatively the same across species)

50
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what are the Limitations of behaviorism

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does not explain language learning
¤ Behaviorism view: Language is learned through operant conditioning
¤ We learn to say what we are rewarded for
¤ Problem! Operant conditioning can’t explain how children use language and
create new phrases
¤ Children will pluralize objects by adding an ‘s’ even if they have never seen/hear the word (mices)
¤ We need to refer to mental processes to explain this behavior!

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who is Ulric Neisser and why is he important

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¤ Revolutionized how we study the mind
¤ The birth of Cognitive Psychology
¤ Internal mental processes matter AND can be studied and measured
¤ We can use our minds to study the mind

52
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how is the cognitive revolution different from behaviourism

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¤ Accepted that there are internal mental states Unlike behaviorism

53
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did The cognitive revolution use scientific method

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¤ Accepted a strong scientific method of inquiry to study these states ¤ Thanks to behaviorism!
¤ Also borrowed from other fields

54
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what are the reasons that cognitive psychology came to be

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¤ Other reasons the ‘revolution’ occurred
¤ There was a rise of technology
¤ The birth of computer science
¤ Helped form the analogy between human mind and computer
¤ Supported the view of the mind as a processor of information

55
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what is the Main aim of the cognitive revolution

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¤ Understanding cognition involves breaking ‘thinking’ down into abstract information processing steps
¤ Like a computer is a set of programs ¤ Like a cake recipe is a set of steps

¤ With this view, the goal of the cognitive revolution is to understand the mental processes happening at each stage of thought

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what are the main schools of thought for psychology (cognitive)

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structuralism, functionalism, behaviourism, cognition

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