Cognitive Psych EXP 3604 UCF
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chapter 1 starts here - answer ch 1
cognitive psychology - answer branch of psychology concerned
with the scientific study of the mind
mind - answer system that creates mental representations of the
world, and controls mental functions such as perception, attention,
memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning
cognition - answer mental processes and structures involved in the
acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of information
How do we acquire information? - answer Perception
How do we select the information we use? - answer Attention
How do we store and retrieve information? - answer Memory
How do we transform and use the information? - answer Thinking
reaction time - answer the time it takes to react to a stimulus.
Usually determined by measuring the time between presentation of
a stimulus and the response to the stimulus
,Franciscus Donders (1868) - answer dutch psychologist
credited with first cog. experiment: How long to make a choice?
Donders' choice experiment - answer simple reaction: measure
time between stimulus presentation and person's response to
stimulus
vs
choice: 2 stimuli locations, measure time to determine if stimuli is
presented on left or right
simple reaction time - answer reacting to the presence or absence
of a simple stimulus (as opposed to having to choose between a # of
stimuli before making a response)
choice reaction time - answer time to respond to 1 of 2 or more
stimuli
Wilhelm Wundt (1897) - answer german psychologist credited with
1st psych laboratory
structuralism and analytic introspection
structuralism - answer an approach to psychology that explained
perception as the adding up of small elementary units called
sensations
analytic introspection - answer a procedure used by early
psychologists in which trained participants described their
experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli
Ebbinghaus (1855/1913) - answer german psychologist
, early experiment using quantitative method: How rapidly is newly
learned info lost?
savings & savings curve
Ebbinghaus memory test - answer tested himself
read syllables aloud many times
determined # of repetitions of list to learn fully and how long to
relearn after a delay
savings - answer measure used by Ebbinghaus to determine the
magnitude of memory left from initial learning
Higher savings > greater memory
savings curve - answer plot of savings vs time after original
learning
William James - answer American psychologist at Harvard
taught 1st psychology course
wrote Principles of Psychology (1890)
made observations of his own mind, not experiments
John B. Watson - answer 1878-1958
founded behaviorism
believed that given an infant, he could mold them into whatever
role he wanted
behaviorism - answer the approach to psychology , founded by JB
watson, which states that observable behavior provides the only
valid data for psych.
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