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Donder - Reaction time - takes 1/10th of a second to make a decision
Wundt - structuraism, used analytic introspection
Ebbinghaus - nature of forgetting and memory, used savings technique
James - observation of mind
Watson - little Albert experiment, making him afraid of furry white things; conditioned
phobias; applied CC to advertising
Tolman - cognition; studied rats and discovered the "cognitive map" in rats and humans
Cherry's experiment - Study demonstrating selective auditory attention.
Neisser - father of cognitive psychology, published cogntiive pyschology
Broadbent - proposed the first flow diagram of the mind, what happens in the mind when
directing attention to one stimulus in the environment
,Artificial intelligence - idea of john mccarthy's, the ability of a computer to perform tasks
usually associated with human intelligence
Simon and Newell - created McCarthy's idea of AI and was able to create proofs of math
theorems that involve principles of logic
Atkinson and Shiffron's model - model of memory
Sensory memory - holds incoming information for a fraction of a second and then passes
most of this information to short term memory
Short term memory - activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the
information is stored or forgotten
Rehearsal - repeating something to keep form forgetting it
Long term memory - a type of storage that holds information for hours, days, weeks, or
years
Higher mental processes - the complex cognitive functions, such as thinking, problem-
solving, and long-term remembering considered in the study of cognitive psychology
Episodic memory - events in life (what you did last week)
, Semantic memory - facts (capitals of states)
Procedural memory - physical action (how to ride a bike)
Tulving - believed long term memory can be divided into 3 subcategories : sematic,
episodic, procedural memories
Why did the fMRI take place of the PET? - it didnt involve radioactive tracers and
produced a higher resolution image
Palmer - how our knowledge about the enviornment can influence our perception. kitchen
and bread experiment
Encoding - the processing of information into the memory system - happening when you
learn it
Retrieval - what is happening when you are remembering the material - pulling out of
memory storage
Biological Milestones - puberty
Social milestones - such as the age when children begin formal schooling; not universal
Donder - Reaction time - takes 1/10th of a second to make a decision
Wundt - structuraism, used analytic introspection
Ebbinghaus - nature of forgetting and memory, used savings technique
James - observation of mind
Watson - little Albert experiment, making him afraid of furry white things; conditioned
phobias; applied CC to advertising
Tolman - cognition; studied rats and discovered the "cognitive map" in rats and humans
Cherry's experiment - Study demonstrating selective auditory attention.
Neisser - father of cognitive psychology, published cogntiive pyschology
Broadbent - proposed the first flow diagram of the mind, what happens in the mind when
directing attention to one stimulus in the environment
,Artificial intelligence - idea of john mccarthy's, the ability of a computer to perform tasks
usually associated with human intelligence
Simon and Newell - created McCarthy's idea of AI and was able to create proofs of math
theorems that involve principles of logic
Atkinson and Shiffron's model - model of memory
Sensory memory - holds incoming information for a fraction of a second and then passes
most of this information to short term memory
Short term memory - activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the
information is stored or forgotten
Rehearsal - repeating something to keep form forgetting it
Long term memory - a type of storage that holds information for hours, days, weeks, or
years
Higher mental processes - the complex cognitive functions, such as thinking, problem-
solving, and long-term remembering considered in the study of cognitive psychology
Episodic memory - events in life (what you did last week)
, Semantic memory - facts (capitals of states)
Procedural memory - physical action (how to ride a bike)
Tulving - believed long term memory can be divided into 3 subcategories : sematic,
episodic, procedural memories
Why did the fMRI take place of the PET? - it didnt involve radioactive tracers and
produced a higher resolution image
Palmer - how our knowledge about the enviornment can influence our perception. kitchen
and bread experiment
Encoding - the processing of information into the memory system - happening when you
learn it
Retrieval - what is happening when you are remembering the material - pulling out of
memory storage
Biological Milestones - puberty
Social milestones - such as the age when children begin formal schooling; not universal
