week 1 what is cognetive psychology Flashcards
areas
developmnet
persobality
social
clinical
cognetive psychology
perception,attention,problem solving,mem,language
whats cog psychology
psychology- mind
neurosience mind and brain
( mind how think, brain organ made up of transmitters)
what structionalism
wundt-understand concept mental health through introspection
whats introspection
looking inward= information passing through consouness
whats functionalism
William James= important understand mental experiences
through observing
john b watson- behaviourism
observable stimuli and response
classic conditioning- learned reaction to stimulus through learning assosiation between two stimuli
operant conditioning-learned response as resul reward
mind
stimulis— attention, perception,thinking decion making—– behaviour
whats representation
standing in for something else as real thing
example of representation newell
schematic of mental representation-
entity x (mental represtation) presented by entity y (stimuli) after process= MENTAL TRANSFORMATION
carrying on
P takes out x as input, producing some behaviour/ output in relation to Y-
what charectersised representation
stimuli- info we store ( unreliable how interpret world)
mind metaphor-PARREL INFORMATION
SYSTEM= made bullion interconnected noted
OPERATE PARRELL=capacity effect each other
NODES- activated like neuron
NETWORK-build through experience
what does brain do
provide neural basis for mental activity