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A branch of computer science concerned with creating computers that mimic human
artificial intelligence
performance on cognitive tasks.
association A connection or link between two units or elements.
attention Cognitive resources, mental effort, or concentration devoted to a cognitive process.
A school of psychology that seeks to define psychological research in terms of observable
behaviorism
measures, emphasizing the scientific study of behavior.
A research paradigm in which different experimental subjects participate in different
between-subjects design
experimental conditions.
The construction of pictures of the anatomy and functioning of intact brains through such
brain imaging techniques as computerized axial tomography (CAT, or CT), positron emission tomography (PET),
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
A research paradigm in which an investigator begins by asking participants a series of open-
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, A school of psychology that investigates the cognitive abilities and deficits of people with
cognitive neuropsychology
damaged or otherwise unusual brain structures.
A movement in psychology that culminated after World War II, characterized by a belief in the
cognitive revolution
empirical accessibility of mental states and events.
An interdisciplinary field drawing on research from cognitive psychology, computer science,
cognitive science philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, and anthropology. The central issues addressed involve the
nature of mind and cognition and how information is acquired, stored, and represented.
The basis for the information processing view of the brain. Different types of psychological
computer metaphor
processes are thought to be analogous to the workings of a computer processor.
An approach to cognition emphasizing parallel processing of information through immense
networks of interconnected nodes. Models developed in the connectionist tradition are
connectionism
sometimes declared to share certain similarities with the way collections of neurons operate in
the brain; hence, some connectionist models are referred to as neural networks.
A research paradigm in which an observer standardizes the conditions of observation for all
controlled observation
participants, often introducing specific manipulations and recording responses.
decision making The process(es) by which an individual selects one course of action from among alternatives.
An approach to the study of cognition emphasizing the natural contexts or settings in which
ecological approach cognitive activities occur, and the influences such settings have in the ways in which cognitive
activities are acquired, practiced, and executed.
A property of research such that the focus of study is something that occurs naturally outside an
ecological validity
experimental laboratory.
empiricism A philosophical doctrine emphasizing the role of experience in the acquisition of knowledge.
experiment A test of a scientific theory in which the researcher manipulates the independent variable.
A property of research such that the causes of different behaviors or other phenomenon can be
experimental control isolated and tested. Typically, this involves manipulating independent variables and holding
constant all factors but the one(s) of interest.
A school of psychology emphasizing questions such as why the mind or a particular cognitive
functionalism
process works the way(s) it does.
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