Chapter 1
Who is the founder of psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
how do we process faces?
holistically- in terms of overall shape and structure (gestalt)
Cognition
how we acquire, store, transform and use knowledge
Examples: Perception, memory, language, decision-making, etc.
How do we get brain lesions?
strokes, tumors, blow to the head and accidents.
What are the two categories that most theoretical approaches to speech perception fall into?
The special mechanism approach and the general mechanism approach
Artificial Intelligence
a branch of computer science that explores human cognitive processes by creating computer models that show "intelligent behavior"
What did William James theorize?
our everyday psychological experiences
True or False:
Many cognitive processes rely on both bottom-up and top-down processing.
True
Pure AI
designs a computer program to accomplish a cognitive task as efficiently as possible
What is the difference between computer stimulation and pure AI?
pure AI eliminates human error while computer stimulation replicates human functioning.
gestalt psychology- what is it?
an approach that emphasizes that humans have the basic tendency to organize what they see
Perception
using previous knowledge to gather and interpret stimuli registered by our senses
Mention the traditional disciplines of Cognitive Science
linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, computer science/artificial intelligence, and anthropology
What is the McGurk Effect?
refers to the influence of visual information on speech perception, when individuals must integrate both visual and auditory information.
Change Blindness
failure to detect a change in an object or scene