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PSYX 280 - FUNDAMENTALS OF MEMORY AND COGNITION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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PSYX 280 - FUNDAMENTALS OF MEMORY AND COGNITION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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PSYX 280 - FUNDAMENTALS OF MEMORY AND COGNITION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024 History - ANSWER -Structuralism -Functionalism -Behaviorism -Gestalt -Genetic epistemology -Individual differences -Cognitive revolution Philosophy (logical arguments) - ANSWER Empiricism (nurture):Nativism (nature): Psychology (hypothesis testing) - ANSWER Structuralism:Functionalism:Behaviorism:Gestalt Psychology:Genetic Epistemology:Study of Individual Differences What is Empiricism (nurture): - ANSWER emphasizes experience and the role of mental associations •Knowledge comes from an individual's own experience cognitive psychology - ANSWER subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes. It is the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems. cognitive science - ANSWER interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. empiricism - ANSWER The Philosophical school of thought that real knowledge comes from the senses. This formed the basis for the foundation of modern science - the reliance on empirical evidence, or evidence that is observable. You have probably heard the expression, "empirical data" before...it is referring to any data that are observable through the senses. nativism - ANSWER Nativism implies that the brain has certain structures which play a role in the creation and development of knowledge and that part of this process is simply innate structuralism - - ANSWER the basic building blocks (elementary units) of consciousness Introspection: report mode, quality, intensity, and duration of subjective experience Wundt, Titchener (European Functionalism - ANSWER the function of mind Habit keeps behavior within bounds study real life situations James (American behaviorism - ANSWER banish reference to unobservables •classical and instrumental conditioning •disdain for subjective introspection •Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, Skinner belief that behaviors can be measured, trained, and changed. gestalt - ANSWER study phenomena in their entirety •perception of total structure •Wertheimer, Koffka, Wolfgang (German) school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole. Genetic Epistemology - ANSWER intellectual structures underlying cognitive experience •Study people at different ages (development) -A child's intellectual structures differ "qualitatively" from those of a mature adult •Piaget (Swiss) Study of Individual Differences - ANSWER Inspired by evolutionThe benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
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