Intro to cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology
The scientific study of mental processes, focusing on how we think, perceive, learn, use language, solve problems, and solve problems.
Artificial Intelligence
involves computer systems performing tasks that typically need human intelligence, like learning, reasoning, perception, and language.
Change blindless
Unable to detect a difference made in an environment or to an object.
Founder of psychology
Wilhelm Wundt (Voont)
Limitations of artificial intelligence
Inattentional blindness
failure to notice something new and unexpected added to the scene.
First female president of APA
Mary Whiton Calkins
provides a framework for thinking about nature and organization of perception, memory, language, and thought.
Prosopagnosia and causes
inability to processes faces, people can see them but can't recognize them. Present from birth or brain damage.
Ecological Validity
measures how realistically a research study reflects real life world situations
Connectionist Approach
models cognitive abilities, like thought and learning. Our mental processes are similar to networks that link together neuron-like units and processes occur in parallel
Co-articulation
pronunciation of a phoneme is influenced by the phonemes surrounding it
Cognitive neuroscience
the scientific study of the brain's basis for mental processes like memory, attention, language, and decision making
Serial processing
instructions are processed sequentially without overlap in time. Viewed cognitive processes as a series of steps
Distal stimuli vs Proximal stimulus
Distal: a tangible object in front of you or in the environment
Proximal: image on your retina, information registered on sensory receptors