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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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In 1868,   show
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What did Donders' experiment acheive?   show
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show Overall experience is determined by combining basic elements of experienced called sensations. The goal was to describe irreducible structures that comprised thought.  
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show He hoped to create a "periodic table of the mind", which included all the basic sensations. He did this through analytic introspection.  
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show Trained subjects described their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli in terms of elementary mental structures.  
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show He repeated lists of 13 nonsense syllables to himself one at a time at a constant rate. He used a measure called savings to determine how much was forgotten after a delay, which provided a measure of forgetting. He discovered the savings curve.  
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How is savings calculated?   show
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What does the savings curve show?   show
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show Functionalism: an emphasis on function of mental processes and not structures.  
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Why did John Watson found behaviourism as a reaction to analytic introspection?   show
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show 1) Focus only on the observable 2) Explain only behaviour and not internal states e.g. thoughts 3) Theories should be parsimonious 4) Goal: Break down behaviour into irreducible structures. Emphasis on classical conditioning to explain all  
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show He introduced operant conditioning, showing that reinforcing a rat with food for pressing a bar maintained or increased the rat's rate of bar pressing.  
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show The rat was placed at one in the maze and food in another end of the maze. After the rat learnt to turn right, he placed the rat at a different end of the maze. Interestingly, the rat turned a different direction to reach the food.  
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How did Tolman explain his rat in a maze experiment's findings?   show
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show Skinner argued that children learnt language through operant conditioning. However, Noam pointed out that children say many sentences that are not rewarde and incorrect grammar that is not reinforced. He argued for an internal biological language program.  
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What is the information-processing approach?   show
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What are models?   show
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show Representations of a physical structure.  
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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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