Famous Researchers
Psychologist known as the founder of psychology
What is Wilhelm Wundt
How we interpret what we sense.
What is Perception
AI stands for
What is Artificial Intelligence
Emphasized studying mental processes in the real world compared to in a laboratory
**Hint**- First female president of APA
What is Mary Whiton Calkins
The mental processes involved in thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
What is Cognition
This approach in cognitive psychology attempts to explain thinking using only computer programs, without reference to the human brain.
What is Pure Artificial Intelligence
This researcher's book foreshadowed many cognitive ideas still studied such as perception and tip-of-the-tongue-phenomenon
What is William James
The actual object or event in the environment that produces sensory information.
What is Distal Stimulus
This cognitive perspective compares the human mind to a computer that processes information
What is Computer Metaphor
Nonsense syllables
What is Hermann Ebbinghaus
emphasizes that we perceive objects as whole patterns rather than as individual parts
What is Gestalt Psychology
This approach helps psychologists understand cognition by mimicking human problem-solving, memory, or language
What is Computer Simulation
Philosopher known as the "father of logic"
He believed that the mind begins as a blank slate
What is Aristotle
This type of processing is most associated with step-by-step thinking and conscious awareness.
What is Serial Processing
This approach in cognitive psychology models mental processes using networks similar to the brain’s neurons
What is Connectionist Approach