Science of the Mind
Define cognitive psychology
What is the study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information?
Argued that learning language could be understood in terms of behaviors and rewards
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Average size of a human brain
What is 3 pounds?
Three parts of a nueron
What are the cell body, dendrites, and axons?
The dominant sense for humans.
What is vision?
Used in the 1950s to explain human cognition
What is computer terminology?
The father of Experimental Psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Age that brain is fully formed
What is age 25?
3 main structures of the brain.
What are the hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain?
Two types of photoreceptors
What are rods and cones?
Methods that cognitive psychologists use to collect data
What are task performance methods, response of speed, and probing biology?
The father of Behaviorism
Who is John B. Watson?
Size difference between male and female brains
What is 10%?
Provides structural images and relies on the magnetic properties of atoms that make up brain tissue
What are MRI scans?
Recognition can be influenced by one's own knowledge expectations. This is said to involve...
What is top-down processing?
What is beginning with observable facts and working backward to form observations?
The father of Cognitive Psychology
Who is Ulric Neisser?
Women tend to use more of this- which helps them to excel at language and multi-tasking
What is white matter?
Plays a role in metabolism, attention, focus, panic and excitement
What is epinephrine?
Need more incoming light and sensitive to color differences
What are cones?
Can not be measured and did not take unconscious thought into account
What are reasons psychologists abandoned introspection as a research tool?
Philosopher; Proposed the transcendental method
Who is Immanuel Kant?
Last thing to develop in a human brain.
What are the frontal lobes?
Emotional processing (fight, flight, freeze)
What is the function of the amygdala?
Factors that influence recognition.
What are recency of view and familiarity of the stimulus?