People of Psych Flashcards
1
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Fredrick Bartlett
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- We don’t recall things like a photograph
- We reconstruct memories and our recollections change
2
Q
Noam Chomsky
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- Said that behaviourism couldn’t explain the development of language
- Believed in a cognitive based explanation
3
Q
Jean Piaget
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- Examined the way that children develop mental skills
- Noticed consistent mistakes
- The stages set the scene for how adults would perceive and react to life
4
Q
Eleanor Rosch
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- Studied the Dani people of Papua New Guinea
- Dani lacked all words for English colours except light or dark
- People could still categorise items for colours but they didn’t have the words
5
Q
Kahneman and Tversky
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- Prospect theory: states that people make decisions based on the potential value of losses
- Studied heuristics and biases
- Implemented cognitive processes into economics
6
Q
Freud
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We are driven by our unconscious emotions
7
Q
Gibson
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- We tend to not do as much processing as we think: we don’t necessarily need knowledge about the world to see it clearly
8
Q
Biederman
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A given view of an objected is represented as an arrangement of 3D shapes called ‘geons’
9
Q
Nickerson and Adams
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- Penny experiment
- Concluded that visual details of an objected are typically available from memory only to the extent that they’re useful in real life
10
Q
John Stroop
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- Conflict between the colour of the word and the word itself
- Requires extra brain processing
- People usually recognise the word before the colour
11
Q
Broadbent
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- Bottleneck theory: the human cognitive system has limited capacity and information gets squeezed into (a bottleneck) and any info that can’t fit gets left out
12
Q
Treisman
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x
13
Q
Shiffrin and Schneider
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x
14
Q
Atkinson and Shiffrin
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x
15
Q
Endel Tulving
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x
16
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George Sperling
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x
