EXP 3604: Module 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass

EXP 3604: Module 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass What is cognition? mental activity, describes the acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of psychology What is cognitive psychology? refer to a particular theoretical approach to psychology. People's mental processes and their knowledge What did Aristotle contribute to psychology? he developed empirical evidence, this is what all science is based on today What are the two schools of thought? empiricism vs. rationalism What is empiricalism? the idea that we gain knowledge through our senses What is rationalism? the idea that we gain knowledge through our thought processes What is the significance of Wilhelm Wundt? He began the first psychology lab and applied method-logical designs to study science What is structuralism? the idea behind studying psychology that we need to break down to its most basic structural elements How did Wilhelm study introspection? expose people to different stimuli and Wilhelm would methodically write down what would these people would think What is the significance of Ebbinghaus? he is deemed the father of memory research and he found out it takes less time to learn old lists What is the forgetting curve? the pattern of forgetting over time. As time goes on, our memories decay. What did Mary Calkins contribute to psychology? famous for studying paired associate learning How does Mary Calkins study of memory contrast to Ebbinghuas study of memory Mary studied how our memory works in the real world. Ebbinghuas studied basic memory on how we store and encode basic information. What is paired-associate learning? Learning words linked together such as FSU-inferior. What was the result of Mary's paired-associate learning research? that word pairs that shared more meaning were easier to remember What is the rececency effect? the ability to recall more recent words on a list than in the middle of the list What did William James contribute to psychology? He wrote the "Principles of Psychology" and how the human mind is actively and inquiring What is behaviorism? the idea that the environment plays a role on our behavior and we should only study what has a role on what we can observe What is classical conditioning? Pairing a stimulus with a situation which issues a response. For example: pavlov's dog