Test 1 Flashcards
Why study cognitive psychology?
- Laypeople’s intuitions about cognition are frequently __.
- Cognitive Psychology is a __.
- Cognitive Psychology has __ and __ implications.
- Cognition is not __. (__ don’t always match how well we actually remember and process.)
Incorrect
Science
Practical and policy
Intuitive
Intentions
What do Cognitive psychologists do?
- __ research
- __ research and __. Which entails anything humans __ with.
Basic
Applied
Consultancy
Interact
Most graduates do not get jobs in their __ (__% 1st job directly related to major, __% to degree.)
Major
27%
62.1%
What is Cognitive Psychology?
1) a __ of mental processes (attention, learning, memory forms, etc.)
2) a __ _ __ about how to study mental processes.
- a reaction to __’s denial of mental process.
Topic
Point of view
Behaviorism’s
__ approach became increasingly more popular than behavioral approach.
Cognitive
Wilhelm Wundt:background
- born in __ and had an __ childhood.
- his uncle got him into university and he transferred to work with __ Wilhelm __ Bunsen.
- Wundt was his own research subject on effects of restricted __ intake on __ composition.
1832
Unhappy
Robert, von
Salt, urine
Wilhelm Wundt background continued:
- Wundt establishes the 1st __ lab in __.
- the lab does lots of __ and __ work.
Psychology, 1879
Sensation and perception
Structuralism: goal was to determine the __ or __ of __ experience.
-analogous to __’s search for the “__ __” of compounds.
-Physicists interested in __, psychologists in __ of __.
Elements or structure
Conscious
Chemistry’s
Building blocks
Wavelengths
Perception of wavelengths
Wundt’s Methodology:
Introspection
-not armchair speculation, more accurately “___ __-observation.”
-introspection included: self-__(not __), __ times, and word__.
- experimental self-observation
- self-reports (not good), reaction times, and word association.
Criticism’s of Introspection:
- __ thought controversy. (Can you think without __?)
- different labs found different __.
- Oswald __: thinking doesn’t require __.
- Wundt and __: yes, it does. You’re not __ the right way.
Imageless
Imagery
Results
Kulpe
Imagery
Titchener
Introspecting
Imageless thought example
-what # do you think when you see 5 and 2? __ or __.
Can’t prove either response wrong.
52 or 7
Introspection is not a __ method to analyze the contents of the mind.
- subjective reports can’t be __.
- if Psychology is going to be a science, then it must have a __ method and __ data.
Valid
Verified
Verifiable, objective
Behaviorism:
- John __:
- said psychologists should only study __ events such as environmental __ and __.
-Theoretical goal is __ and __ of behavior.
- Stimulus-Response (S-R): it should be possible to predict __ because each stimulus produces __ __. (Like Pavlov’s)
- believed no __ processes play a role in a behavioral chain.
Watson
Observable
Stimuli and behavior
Predication and control
Behavior
1 response
Mental
Behaviorism’s Contributions and Criticism:
Pros: -emphasis on \_\_ (observable data) -experimental \_\_. -advances in \_\_ (and \_\_) learning Cons: -ignores \_\_ and \_\_ influences. (2 examples) -stimulus-response(S-R) is overly \_\_. -higher level \_\_ (reasoning and language) received less attention.
Objective
Rigor
Animal (and human)
Cognitive and biological (motivation, thought)
Simplistic
Cognition
Early heroes of the cognitive revolution:
Cognitive psych existed before it had a __.
-William __.
*father of __ psychology and a famous __.
-studied __ and __ memory (precursor to short and long term memory) and __.
-described ____ experiences (not introspection into component parts)
-functionalism: mental phenomenon have a __. Contrast to structuralism’s __ conceptions of human experience(Wundt and titchener).
Name
James
American, philosopher
Primary, secondary
Attention
Phenomenological
Purpose
Elemental
Herman __.
- used scientific techniques to study __ and __.
- used __ syllables (not tainted by length, familiarity, or meaning.)
- the __ variable: __ of nonsense syllables recalled.
- lots of __ variables. (__ experimental design).
Ebbinghaus
Memory and forgetting
Nonsense
Dependent, number
Independent
Good
Early Cognitivists:
Franciscus (F.C) __.
- studied mental __ (how much time different mental processes took)
- __ time as ___ dependent variable.
-used __ reaction time (press button when you see light) vs __ reaction time (press the button when you see the RED light).
They subtracted the 1st time from the 2nd time in order to see how long it takes people to __ (__ ms).
Danders
Chronometry
Reaction
Objective
Simple, choice
Discriminate (150ms)
Early Cognitivists:
Gestalt Psychology
- the __ is other than the sum of parts.
- more arguments against basic_-_ theories.
- research on __ solving and __ thinking (e.g insight).
- __ protocalls “talk Aloud”
Whole
S-R
Problem, creative
Verbal
E.C __ (behaviorist)
-__ learning: learning can occur, even without rewards.
Study: rats did maze best with better __. Group 1 got food rewards __. Group 2 __ received good reward. Group 3 didn’t receive a food reward until the __th day. Group 3 became very __ at the maze after receiving the food reward. (They knew it, just needed reward.)
Tolman
Latent
Rewards
Daily
Never
11th
Good
E.C Tolman: Cognitive maps
- behaviorism predicts path 2 but rats use path 3 for block b (middle blocked).
- the cognitive map is a type of __ __.
- S-O-R Psychology: __-__ -__
- use behavior to infer __ __.
Mental representation
Stimulus-organism-response
Mental state
Example of a behavioral chain:
- squirrel doing __ __.
- animals can be trained (shaped) to do complex __ __.
Obstacle course
Behavioral sequences
Behaviorists simplistic view on speech production:
-a sentence is a __ of __.
- sentences are learned __ of __. (A __ elicits the 1st word, which serves as the __ for the 2nd word and so on.)
- many behaviorists believed that __ and __ conditioning acquisit language.
Sequence, words
Chains, responses
Stimulus, stimulus
Classical, operant
Sentences consist of __.
-sentences are not formed by simply stringing __ together.
-rather, sentences have a __ design. Words are grouped into successively larger __ units called __.
Phrases
Words
Hierarchical
Structural
Phrases
Productivity of Language:
An __ number of sentences can be generated and understood with __ knowledge and resources.
Ex: colorless green ideas sleep furiously. (Brain tries to understand).
Poverty of the input: children’s sentence production abilities are too __ to be explained by only what they’ve __.
Infinite
Finite
Advanced
Heard
Linguistics contributions:
Human language:
- is a sophisticated, __ system that involves __ and __ of hierarchical phrase structures.
-is a __-governed system.
-is infinitely __.
-is __ and __ (rules for 1 skill (language) are located in a specific module than other skills (vision))
Hierarchical
Storage
Manipulation
Rule
Creative
Innate and modular
Contributions of computer science:
- information processing approach: __ analogy to explain how the mind works.
- __ , __ processes➡️ __.
- programs specify “__ states” between input and output.
- programs are __ (separate programs have different functions)
- artificial intelligence: human thinking is a kind of symbol __; machines can be __. (Ex: chess, logic, algebra).
Computer
Input, internal processes➡️output
Internal
Modular
Manipulation
Intelligent
More computer science contributions:
- __ distributed processing (PDP)/___ism ( __ at a time).
- __ processing: everything worked on at __.
- Use analogy of the __ system in which neurons are connected to each other, knowledge is __ through connections of nodes, excitatory/inhibitory links.
Parallel
Connectionism
One
Parallel
Once
Nervous
Distributed
Bayesian models of cognitive processes:
-bayesian= __
-based on __ reasoning (if..then) and __.
Ex: inferring __ relationships and categories.
Statistical
Conditional
Probabilities
Causal
Ulric __:
- cognitive psychologist in __.
- use __ to make inferences about __ states and __.
- computer metaphor and information processing approach
Neisser
1967
Behavior
Mental
Processes
Psychology: A modern definition
-psychology is the science of __ and __ processes.
Behavior: anything an __ __.
Mental processes: __, __ experiences and states that we infer from __.
Behavior
Mental
Organism does
Internal, subjective
Behavior
Themes with arrival of new cognitive psychology:
1) cognitive processes are __ based.
- cognition is __ and __ (__ processing).
-__ and __ play a crucial role in memory and cognition.
Bottom up processing: __ data is processed (ex: __ rehearsal).
Top down processing: prior __ influences how we process __ information. (Ex: scripts)
Knowledge
Constructive, interpretative
Active
Experience and knowledge
Sensory, rote
Knowledge, process
Themes with arrival of new cognitive psychology continued:
2) inferring __ mechanisms.
- inference to the best __ -infer the __ cause of an __ event.
- __ used in many sciences.
- uses __ time, __, and __ evidence.
Hidden
Explanation
Hidden
Observed
Successfully
Reaction, mistakes, neurophysiological
Themes with arrival of new cognitive psychology continued:
3) The creative tension between __ and scientific __.
- ___: stay close to the __. (AKA __)
- scientific __: explain phenomena in terms of deeper __, even if they can’t be directly __.
Empiricism
Realism
Empiricism, observations, behaviorism
Scientific realism, Structure, observed
What is cognitive science?
- cognitive science is the __ study of the __\__.
Cognitive mental processes: p__, r__, l__ understanding, l__, t__.
-frequently uses a __ (math) approach.
Interdisciplinary
Mind/brain
Perceiving, remembering, language understanding, learning, and thinking.
Computational
6 fields make up the __ aspect of cognitive science.
-they have overlapping areas of __, complimentary __, and converging __.
The fields are: __, __, __, __, __, __.
Interdisciplinary
Investigation, methods, evidence
Psychology, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, anthropology, and AI (computer science)
Breakdown of 6 fields.
Psych: studies human/animal __ and __ processes
-__ method.
Examples: cognition, psycholinguistics, neuropsych, developmental psych, evolutionary psych.
Behavior and mental processes
Experimental
Breakdown of 6 fields.
Philosophy:
-asks __ questions.
Examples:
-what does it mean to be conscious, rational, intentional.
-when can you say you know something. What is truth, belief, and justification.
-reasoning (logic)
Methods: __ and __ analysis, __ experiments.
Big
Logical and conceptual analysis
Thought
Breakdown of 6 fields.
Neuroscience:
-studies ___ system.
- grounded in ___ and __.
- __ methods.
Nervous
Biology and biochemistry
Diverse
Breakdown of 6 fields.
Computer Science (AI): -\_\_ and \_\_ approach to computation.
Computation: __ or __ that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to __.
Methods: computer __, analysis of __, and r___.
Scientific and practical
Process or algorithms
Information
Simulation, algorithms, robotics
Breakdown of 6 fields.
Linguistics (and music):
-studies the structures of human __, the nature of __ __, p__, and p__.
Methods: statistical __, __-linguistic__.
Languages
Language acquisition
Perception
Production
Analysis
Cross-linguistic comparison
Cognitive neuroscience:
Neuroscience and psych
-use of evidence from __ research to understand __ functioning.
Doctrine of Localization:
-specific __ areas control specific parts of the __.
Double dissociation:
-a complementary pattern involving 2 tasks in 2 patients with lesions in 2 different brain areas. Tasks a and b are __ and neurologically __.
Neurological
Cognitive
Brain, body
Modular, distinct
Functional MRI:
Insight into brain __ and __ in __ time. (Seconds)
- blood __ level dependent.
- __’s subtractive method.
- __ challenges.
- revolutionizes __ neuroscience.
Structure
Function
Real
Oxygen
Donder’s
Methodological
Cognitive
Akiro Haraguchi: memorized __ digits of pi
Autauro Toscanini: memorized __ scores
100,000
Musical
Defining memory:
- memory is not one single __, it has several __.
- records our __ and __-__ for moment to moment __.
- memory does not have one single, c__, s__, or p__.
Thing
Functions
Experiences
Work-space
thoughts
Capacity, structure, or process
Definition of memory span:
- the __ of items (letters, digits, etc..) you can __ in __.
- measure of __/__-__ memory.
- adult average= __.
Number
Remember
Order
Working/ short-term
7
Factors that impact memory span:
- related items vs __ items.
- concrete items vs __.
- rhythmic presentation vs _ or __ presentation.
- faster presentation vs __ presentation.
- auditory presentation vs __ presentation.
- short words vs __ words.
- no distractions vs __.
Which side is long memory span, which is shorter?
Unrelated
Abstract
No or arrhythmic
Slower
Visual
Long
Distractions
Left side is longer, right side shorter
Terms from early computer processing influenced psych lingo:
Encoding: transformation of __ input that allows it to be entered into __.
Storage: the operation of __ info.
Retrieval: the process by which __ info is __ from memory.
Sensory, memory
Holding
Stored, extracted
Case Study S.F:
-digit span of _ but after 230+ hours of practice, S.F could reliably recall __ length sequences in order.
S.F. used a combination of __ and __ strategies.
-Chunking (__ strategy): chunking of groups of digits into __ units.
-Hierarchical Organization (__ strategy): organize the chunks into__.
Use the __ for retrieval cues.
Hierarchical organization is an example of __ __ __ processing.
8, 80
Encoding
Retrieval
Encoding
Meaningful
Retrieval
Groups
Hierarchy
Active top down processing
Evidence for hierarchical organization:
- verbal protocalls: people __-__ (subjective) hierarchical retrieval of chunks.
- behavioral evidence: people’s speech patterns during recall are normal __ a chunk, but slower __ chunks. (Objective)
- self-report
- within, between
Information processing model:
Mind is like a __-it takes in information, changes it and creates an __.
Computer
Output
Multi store model:
- ex of __ __.
- _ memory stores with distinct: __, __, and __(format).
__ processes: rehearsal, elaboration, development of __ cues
-boxes and __.
Information processing
3
Capacity, duration, and code
Control
Retrieval
Arrows
Sensory store:
Information is held in a modality-specific __ until it is attended to or forgotten.
iconic:
Capacity: all __ input (for a short time)
Duration: .-. seconds.
Code (format): __
Echoic:
Capacity: all __ input (for a short time, length of a __.)
Duration: - seconds.
Code (format): __
Haptic:
Capacity: _ _ _
Duration: _ seconds.
Code (format): __.
Buffer
Sensory
-0.3-1.0 seconds
Vision
Sensory
Sentence
2-4 seconds
Auditory
TBD
2 seconds
Tactile
Evidence for Iconic Memory:
-__’s partial report paradigm and results.
Consisted of: fixation, letter array, blank field delay(length of time varied), cue tone, and report.
-longer delay time= __ right. Inferred that the __ memory sensory store only lasts . to . seconds.
Sperling’s
Less
Iconic
0.3 -1.0 seconds
Iconic memory and the brain:
Retina: cells not __ long enough.
Primary Visual Cortex: single V1 cell responses only ~__ ms. (As long as __).
Temporal Lobe: STS (__ __ __), neurons active in STS even after __ termination. (AKA this is where iconic memory takes place)
Active
25 ms
Stimulus
Superior temporal sulcus
Stimulus
Short term store (STS):
-You transfer information you paid attention to from the __ store into the __ __ __.
- knowledge in the __ __ __ allows for active, __-__ processing of information in short term store.
- limited __ span (__ capacity).
Sensory
Short term store
Long term store
Top-down
Memory (fixed)
STS (Working memory) capacity:
-“magical number” __+ or - __ items.
consistent limitations across a range of __ and experimental __:
- perfect recall is difficult for lengths > _ or _.
- span for numerals, letters, words is _ + or - _.
- size of the __ matters.
- better estimate: _ + or - _ chunks.
7 +or - 2 items
Stimuli
Paradigms
3 or 4
7 + or - 2
Chunk
4 + or - 1
Evidence for separate stores:
Why STM and LTM not just a general memory category
3 kinds of evidence for separate stores:
- __ position curves in __ recall test.
- __ patterns in memory span tasks.
- __ evidence
Serial, free
Error
Neurological
Free recall test:
list of words (people, cotton, crown, season, round, paper, river, garage, chief) is read and then recalled in any order.
-people usually get __ words (primacy effect) and __ words (recency effect).
Primacy: __ __ __
Recent: __ __ __
1st words, last words
Long term store
Short term store
Evidence for LTS and STS from serial position curves:
-faster rates (talking) affect the __ portion of the curve (because of less __/__) but do not affect the __ portion.
Delay effects:
- _ or _ second delay; count backwards by 3’s to prevent __.
- this manipulation abolishes the __ effect but does not effect the __ effect.
Early
Rehearsal/primacy
Recency
10 or 30
Rehearsal
Recency
Primacy
How long does information last in STS?
- might not be a matter of time
- might be __ rather than __ decay.
Decay hypothesis: as __ passes, short term memory __.
-STM’s limited capacity may be due to __ decay: items just __ as time passes.
Alternative hypothesis is interference:
__ interference: new material “__” previously learned material.
__ interference: old material make it harder to __ subsequently learned material.
Most evidence favors the __ over __ __ hypothesis.
Interference
Passive
Time
Fades
Passive
Degrade
Retroactive, overwrites
Proactive, retrieve
Interference, passive decay
Brown Peterson Distractor Test:
Subjects count backwards by 3’s during the __ interval.
-the span drops precipitously because of __ __.
Retention
Retroactive interference
Loss of info from STS is mainly due to __ not decay.
Probe digit task: 519635147394
-last number is the __. What is the number __ the earlier mention of it?
- __ in this example, 3 and 9 are the __ items.
- there were fast and slow conditions.
- __ should be more difficult because of more __ but it turned out that the number of __ items mattered, not the __.
Interference
Probe
After
7
Interfering
Slow, decay
Interfering, speed
Error patterns in STS vs LTS:
- STS uses predominantly an __ code.
- memory errors based on the __ confusability of the items, not the __ similarity. (E.g: confuse / or / rather than / or /.)
- however, all 3 codes (__, __, and __) exist in STS.
- LTS seems to use an __ code with an emphasis on __.
Auditory
Acoustic, visual
V/B or S/F rather than F/E or B/R
Visual, acoustic, and semantic
Elaborative, semantics
Neurological evidence for separate stores:
- __ __ linked to STS/working memory.
- __ __ linked to LTM
But it’s complicated, both can be activated during either __ term or __ term memory tasks.
__ __ damage can cause STM impairment.
Prefrontal cortex
Temporal lobes
Short, long
Temporal lobe
Critique of multi store model:
- STM has multiple __ and is not a passive ‘__’ to LTM.
- sometimes rote rehearsal is not enough to go to _ _ _, __ of processing matters.
Codes
Gateway
LTM
Depth
The multi store model played an important role in the “__ __” in the 1960’s/70’s, but has been replaced.
- key phenomena are still as relevant as ever though (p__, r__, r__, i__).
- __ memory replaced the term short term memory.
Cognitive revolution
Primacy, recency, rehearsal, interference
Working
Depth of processing determines transfer to LTM:
Depth of processing: the __ of activity devoted to __ new information.
Shallow judgment: __
Intermediate judgement: __
Deep judgment: __
Level
Processing
Case, rhyme, sentence
Shallow processing:
- __ like rehearsal
- may be __.
- insufficient to transfer info to __. (Counter to __)
Speech
Covert
LTM
MSM
Elaboration:
- Encodes inputs into __.
- May __ new info in existing memory structures.
- key to _ _ _ storage
Chunks
Embed
LTM
Multi-store model vs. WM model:
Working memory: “a __ capacity system allowing the temporary __ and __ of information necessary for such complex tasks as c__, l__, and r__.”
-uses __ inputs, info from _ _ _, and __-__ structures.
Ex: 52 minus 24
- an __ (not passive), temporary representation of information that is maintained for the __ term.
Limited
Storage and manipulation
Comprehension, learning, and reasoning.
Perceptual, LTM, ad-hoc
Active, short
Working memory model:
Central executive: __ and __ the processing of info to and from the __ systems.
Slave systems:
- __ loop
- __-__ sketchpad
- __ buffer
The Slave systems are not gateways to the __ __ __.
Coordinates and controls
Slave
Phonological
Visuo-spatial
Episodic
Long term memory.