History of Cognitive Psychology
A fundamental aspect of science that differentiates it from pseudo-science or fake science.
What is testability?
This method of studying psychology is based on drawing conclusions from thoughts spoken aloud.
The brain's process for organizing and interpreting sensory information from neural signals.
What is perception?
This cognitive process is influenced by repetition, familiarity, presence in a word, and well-formedness.
What is recognition?
This cognitive process allows us to be selective in what is processed and is limited in capacity.
What is attention?
This psychological school of thought can be described as "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
What is Gestalt psychology?
This invasive method of studying animal brains consists of damaging the brain in a controlled experiment.
What are animal brain lesions?
This describes a perceptual process that is shaped by existing knowledge and expectations.
What is top-down processing?
The phenomenon that humans have better memory for faces of one's same race compared to faces of another race.
What is cross-race effect?
This cognitive phenomenon may be driven by the difficulty of suppressing the automaticity of reading.
What is stroop effect/stroop interference?
This psychological school of thought focuses on changes in response to different configurations of stimuli (e.g., rewards).
What is Behaviorism?
This non-invasive method of studying the brain works well at recording precise timing data about brain activity by measuring electrical signals in the brain.
What is EEG?
The part of the eye's retina where vision is the clearest.
What is the fovea?
This theory of object recognition is often critiqued for requiring infinite amounts of mental space for mental representations of objects.
What is template matching?
The phenomenon where humans fail to notice something that is unexpected but fully visible because their attention is focused on something else.
What is inattentional blindness?
This psychological school of thought is based on breaking down conscious experience into irreducible basic elements.
What is Structuralism?
This non-invasive method of studying the brain works well at recording precise location data about which areas of the brain are active by measuring blood oxygen levels in the brain.
What is fMRI?
The set of rules governing how humans organize visual input, including proximity, similarity, continuity, closure, and figure-ground.
What are gestalt principles?
This theory of object recognition states that humans recognize objects by separating them into simple geometric shapes called geons.
What is recognition-by-components model?
This model of attention states that humans process all stimuli, however, the unattended stimuli is processed in a reduced manner.
This movement describes a shift in psychology focusing on examining the effects produced by mental processes to develop and test hypotheses about the unseen mental processes.
What is the cognitive revolution?
This method of studying psychology starts with observing facts and working backward from these observations by asking how they may have come about.
What is the transcendental method?
This theory of color vision states that there are three types of cones in the retina that are each receptive to one of three colors: red, green, or blue.
What is trichromatic theory/Young-Helmholtz theory?
Cognitive psychology research suggests that humans are biased towards these types of stimuli, as they react and make saccades quicker to them.
What are faces?
A pattern of responding where one responds the same way over and over again even though they are aware that the task requires a change in response.
What is perseveration error?