week 1 Flashcards
how does williams syndrome impact patients
they have difficulty in processing visuospatial information
is all of william syndrome patients spatial navigation impaired
no
what are the 2 navigation systems
response based and place based
what navigation system is dominant in Williams syndrome
response based system
why are people with williams syndrome often better at response based navigation compared to people with normal brains
because the 2 navigation systems are not competing against eachother in williams syndrome brains as they are in normal brains
what did cognitive psychology emerge from
philosophy
what is nativism
knowledge is innate
what is empiricism
knowledge is acquired through experience
different ways of studying the human mind
structuralism
functionalism
behaviourism
what is structuralism
analysis of the human mind into primitive componential elements
eg. into elements such as hydrogen and oxygen
what did structuralism change
changed the nature of psychology research from philosophical to scientific
two problems surrounding structuralism
subjective and unreliable
what is functionalism
the mind is defined solely by its function
- how it responds to various stimuli eg. sensory output
what did functionalism provide
many ideas that formed the foundation of contemporary psychological research
weaknesses of functionalism
little to no empirical support
what is behaviourism
only the directly observable should be studied
strictly about stimulus-response relations
what type of approach is behaviourism
rigorous experimental approach
what important role has behaviourism done
played an important role in introducing experimental methods to psychological research
what is the cognitive revolution
during WW2 research on human performance was intensively conducted
what fields did the cognitive revolution help developments
information theory
linguistics
computer science (es artificial intelligence)
they provided psychologists with tools and models for the analysis of intelligent behaviour
how do we decompose mental processes
formulate a theoretical model of how output is made from a given input
measure the time taken for each processing stage
analyse which variable affects which processing stage
