Cognition
The study of how we acquire, store, transform, and use knowledge.
What is cognitive psychology?
The approach that dominated psychology in the first half of the 20th century and focused only on observable behavior.
What is behaviorism?
Founder of experimental psychology who used introspection to study mental processes.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The idea that human cognition similarly to a computer using structures and processes.
What is the computer metaphor of the mind?
Combines research techniques of cognitive psychology with various methods for assessing the structure and function of the brain.
What is cognitive neuroscience?
Perception, memory, language, and problem solving are all examples of:
What is cognition?
A development in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century that emphasized that humans have basic tendencies to actively organize what we see.
What is gestalt psychology?
Memory researcher known for nonsense syllables and the forgetting curve.
Who is Herman Ebbinghaus?
This model suggests that information progresses through our cognitive system in a series of stages, one step at a time.
What is information-processing approach?
Destruction of an area in the brain, most often by strokes, tumors, blows to the head, and accidents.
What is brain lesions?
A precise definition that specifies exactly how a concept is to be measure.
What is operational definition?
The shift away from behaviorist approaches to the study of human behavior.
What is the cognitive revolution?
First psychologist to report the recency effect and emphasized that psychologists should study mental processes in the real world.
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
This model suggests that the system must complete one step or processing stage before information can proceed to the next step in the processing flowchart.
What is serial processing?
Technique that injects low dose of radioactive chemical and track the flow of the chemical to activated areas of the brain.
What is Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scan)?
Conditions in which the research is conducted are like the natural settings where the results will be applied.
What is ecological validity?
A major reason the cognitive revolution occurred was because linguist like Noam Chomsky called out that behaviorism was unable to explain this concept.
What is language?
Psychologists who emerge and emphasized that the human mind is active and inquiring and wrote "Principles of Psychology".
Who is William James?
Processing that occurs simultaneously across multiple mental operations.
What is parallel processing?
This technique measure oxygen levels in blood as indirect measure of brain activity in various brain regions.
What is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)?
An interdisciplinary field that tries to answer questions about the inner workings of the mind. Includes contributions from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, and linguistics.
What is cognitive science?
This early criticism of cognitive psychology argued that many experiments were to high in:
What ecological validity?
Linguistic who emphasized that the structure of language was too complex to be explained in behaviorits terms.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
An approach that argues that cognitive processes works in terms of networks that link together neurons like processing units. These operations can proceed simultaneously.
What is the connectionist approach?
Technique that measures very brief fluctuations in brain's electrical activity in response to a stimulus.
What is Event-related Potential Technique?