week 1

Question 1

how does williams syndrome impact patients

Answer 1

they have difficulty in processing visuospatial information

Question 2

is all of william syndrome patients spatial navigation impaired

Answer 2

no

Question 3

what are the 2 navigation systems

Answer 3

response based and place based

Question 4

what navigation system is dominant in Williams syndrome

Answer 4

response based system

Question 5

why are people with williams syndrome often better at response based navigation compared to people with normal brains

Answer 5

because the 2 navigation systems are not competing against eachother in williams syndrome brains as they are in normal brains

Question 6

what did cognitive psychology emerge from

Answer 6

philosophy

Question 7

what is nativism

Answer 7

knowledge is innate

Question 8

what is empiricism

Answer 8

knowledge is acquired through experience

Question 9

different ways of studying the human mind

Answer 9

structuralism
functionalism
behaviourism

Question 10

what is structuralism

Answer 10

analysis of the human mind into primitive componential elements
eg. into elements such as hydrogen and oxygen

Question 11

what did structuralism change

Answer 11

changed the nature of psychology research from philosophical to scientific

Question 12

two problems surrounding structuralism

Answer 12

subjective and unreliable

Question 13

what is functionalism

Answer 13

the mind is defined solely by its function

- how it responds to various stimuli eg. sensory output

Question 14

what did functionalism provide

Answer 14

many ideas that formed the foundation of contemporary psychological research

Question 15

weaknesses of functionalism

Answer 15

little to no empirical support

Question 16

what is behaviourism

Answer 16

only the directly observable should be studied

strictly about stimulus-response relations

Question 17

what type of approach is behaviourism

Answer 17

rigorous experimental approach

Question 18

what important role has behaviourism done

Answer 18

played an important role in introducing experimental methods to psychological research

Question 19

what is the cognitive revolution

Answer 19

during WW2 research on human performance was intensively conducted

Question 20

what fields did the cognitive revolution help developments

Answer 20

information theory
linguistics
computer science (es artificial intelligence)
they provided psychologists with tools and models for the analysis of intelligent behaviour

Question 21

how do we decompose mental processes

Answer 21

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