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Cognition ~~> mental activity that includes the perception, acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of information Cognitive Psychology ~~> theoretical approach to psychology that focuses on studying individuals thought process and knowledge Cognitive Science ~~> interdiscip...

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Psy 252 Exam #3 Study Guide
Questions and Answer | Latest
Update 2024/2025
Cognition


~~> mental activity that includes the perception, acquisition, storage,

transformation, and use of information




Cognitive Psychology


~~> theoretical approach to psychology that focuses on studying individuals

thought process and knowledge




Cognitive Science


~~> interdisciplinary field that examines questions of the mind, focus on

internal representations of external world




Why learn about cognition?


~~> Occupies a major portion of human psychology, widespread influence

on other areas, in psychology and beyond, cog psych proves an owners

manual for your mind




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Cognitive Processes- Active vs. Passive


~~> behaviorists-humans stimulus response, wait for stimulus. Cognitive

approach, we seek out information. Brain isn't a sponge. Brain is synthesizing

and transforming information.




Cognitive Processes- Efficiency & Accuracy


~~> Memory ability is not perfect but remarkable. Language development.




Cognitive Processes- interrelated


~~> making decisions requires perception, memory, general knowledge,

language




Cognitive Processes- Bottom up and top down processing


~~> Botton up: emphasizes stimulus characteristics, perceive elements by

starting with smaller more fine details, build upward, not influenced by other

items.




Wilhelm Wundt


~~> introspection




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William James


~~> principles of psychology, observations of his own mind, tip of the tongue

phenomenon




Ebbinghaus


~~> memory




Mary Whiton Calkings


~~> recency effect




Behaviorism- Watson


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Behaviorism- Skinner


~~>




Behaviorism- operational definition


~~> specifically how something is measured/ defined




The Gestalt Approach


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~~> gestalt psychology, insight




Factors Contributing to the Rise of Cognitive Psychology


~~> -dissapointment with behaviorist approach

-linguistics; Noam Chomsky


-Human Memory research


-Childrens thought processes; Jean Piaget




The Information-Processing Approach


~~> -mental processes are similar to the operations of a computer

-info progresses through the cognitive system in a series of stages, one step at

a time




Atkinson-Shiffrin model


~~> -sensory memory

-short term memory (working mem)


-long term memory (




The current Status of Cognitive Psychology




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