Chapter 1: What is Cognitive Psychology?
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| show | The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind.
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| show | 1860-1870s: Psychophysics (Fechner, Weber),
1868: Donder's Pioneering Experiment
1879: Wundt's psych lab at Leipzig
1885: Ebbinghaus' Memory Experiments
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| show | He was interested in determining how long it took for a person to make a decision. He measured two types of reaction: simple - press button fast, and choice - used two lights, subjects pressed left if left light on. Choice longer by 0.1s than simple etc
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| What did Donders' experiment acheive? | show 🗑
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| What is structuralism? | show 🗑
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| What did Wundt want to acheive? | show 🗑
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| What is analytic introspection? | show 🗑
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| What was Ebbinghaus' Memory experiment? | show 🗑
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| How is savings calculated? | show 🗑
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| What does the savings curve show? | show 🗑
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| What did William James outline in his textbook Principles of Psychology? | show 🗑
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| Why did John Watson found behaviourism as a reaction to analytic introspection? | show 🗑
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| What are the four principles of behaviourism? | show 🗑
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| What did B.F. Skinner contribute? | show 🗑
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| Describe Tolman's rat in a maze experiment. | show 🗑
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| How did Tolman explain his rat in a maze experiment's findings? | show 🗑
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| What was the argument between B.F. Skinner and Noam Chomsky on the former's book Learning Behaviour? | show 🗑
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| What is the information-processing approach? | show 🗑
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| What are models? | show 🗑
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| show | They represnet the processes that are involve in cognitive mechanisms, with boxes representing specific processes and arrows indicating connections between processes.
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