History
The first two people that began the study of experimental psychology in the late 1800s.
Who are Wilhelm Wundt and Edward B. Titchener?
An example of cognitive processing.
What is perception? What is attention? What is memory? What is language? What is decision making?
The name of the claims that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
The first step in the research process.
What is having a theory?
A method in which people observe one’s mental processes of their own experiences.
What is Introspection?
This was the decade when cognitive science emerged.
What happened in the 1950s?
One of the six main disciplines involved in cognitive science that relates to communication.
What is linguistics?
The method that begins with observable facts and works backwards, essentially determining the causes that led to the effects.
What is the Transcendental Method?
The two key processes process of how we pay attention.
What are top down and bottom up processes?
A method in which behaviors are observed.
What is Behaviorism?
The person who came up with the Transcendental Method.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
The techniques we use to learn information about healthy brains.
What are neuroimaging techniques?
The theory that human psychology can be objectively studied through observable actions, rather than thoughts and feelings that cannot be observed.
What is Behaviorism?
An important but counterintuitive aspect of learning new material.
What is forgetting?
A method in which inferences are made about mental states.
What is Cognition?
The most important thing when explaining behavior according to behaviorists.
What are learning histories?
The field that studies damaged brains.
What is clinical neuropsychology?
The time it takes for a person to react to a stimuli.
What is a response time?
The first step when making decisions.
What is "exploring all the options"?
A method proposed by Kant and used in cognitive psychology.
What is the trascendental method?
The concern was that some thoughts are unconscious.
What is the concern the made introspection limited as a research tool?
One of the six main disciplines involved in cognitive science that relates to machines.
What is Computer Science?
Both a behaviorist and a cognitive psychologist who studied rats learning the layout of a maze.
Who was Edward Tolman?
The type of processes that influence people when making decisions.
What are cognitive and emotional processes?
A movement that is considered unscientific.
What is Introspection?