PSY-2101 Test 1 Study Guide fully
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Scope of Cognitive Psychology - correct answer ✔✔-the scientific study of the acquisition,
retention, and use of knowledge.
-A huge range of your actions, thoughts, and feelings depend on your cognition and help us
understand capacities relevant to virtually every moment of our lives
How memory affects our interpretation of self, simple stories, grief, etc. - correct answer ✔✔-
without a memory, there is no self
-it effects your functioning as an intellectual -- your ability to remember, or to pay attention, or
to think through options when making a choice, and to make emotional adjustments to the
world.
Cognitive revolution - correct answer ✔✔-the science of psychology went through changes
during the 1950s and 1960s with a new style of research regarding questions about memory,
decision making, and so on.
Two key ideas centered the cogntive revolution - correct answer ✔✔- the science of psychology
cannot study the mental world directly
- the science of psychology must study the mental world if were going to understand behavior
Introspection - correct answer ✔✔-"looking within"
-Wundt's & Titchener studied thoughts through introspection
limitations of introspection - correct answer ✔✔-some thoughts are unconscious
-the testability of claims is often unattainable
, How behaviorist movement came from limits in introspection
(strengths, limitations) - correct answer ✔✔-centered on the study of organisms behavior in
respone to various stimuli
-strengths: testable data was attainable
-limitation: did not study the mental processes of behavior
Kant's transcendental method - correct answer ✔✔-to use this method, an investigator first
observes the effects or consequences of a process and then asks: What must the process have
been to bring about these effects?
Tolman's contribution that learning can occur without change in behavioral - correct answer
✔✔-learning involved the acquisition of new knowledge
-studied rats and learned they acquired a "cognitive map" of the maze
Computers and cognitive revolution (terminology of how we spoke about the brain changed) -
correct answer ✔✔-explored the possibility that the human mind followed processes and
procedures similar to those used in computers
Researchers (use of scientific method, methods of collecting and interpreting data) - correct
answer ✔✔-we use diverse methods and collect many types of data (cognitive neuroscience,
clinical neuropsycholog, neuroimaging technqiues, etc).
Capgras syndrome (what is it, what do we learn from it) - correct answer ✔✔-amygdala damage
results in lack of emotional response
-prefrontal cortex damage impairs reasoning& causes illogival thoughts
-sometimes found in people with Alzheimers
-facial recognition involves two separate systems in the brain (cognitive appraisal & emotional
appraisal)
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Scope of Cognitive Psychology - correct answer ✔✔-the scientific study of the acquisition,
retention, and use of knowledge.
-A huge range of your actions, thoughts, and feelings depend on your cognition and help us
understand capacities relevant to virtually every moment of our lives
How memory affects our interpretation of self, simple stories, grief, etc. - correct answer ✔✔-
without a memory, there is no self
-it effects your functioning as an intellectual -- your ability to remember, or to pay attention, or
to think through options when making a choice, and to make emotional adjustments to the
world.
Cognitive revolution - correct answer ✔✔-the science of psychology went through changes
during the 1950s and 1960s with a new style of research regarding questions about memory,
decision making, and so on.
Two key ideas centered the cogntive revolution - correct answer ✔✔- the science of psychology
cannot study the mental world directly
- the science of psychology must study the mental world if were going to understand behavior
Introspection - correct answer ✔✔-"looking within"
-Wundt's & Titchener studied thoughts through introspection
limitations of introspection - correct answer ✔✔-some thoughts are unconscious
-the testability of claims is often unattainable
, How behaviorist movement came from limits in introspection
(strengths, limitations) - correct answer ✔✔-centered on the study of organisms behavior in
respone to various stimuli
-strengths: testable data was attainable
-limitation: did not study the mental processes of behavior
Kant's transcendental method - correct answer ✔✔-to use this method, an investigator first
observes the effects or consequences of a process and then asks: What must the process have
been to bring about these effects?
Tolman's contribution that learning can occur without change in behavioral - correct answer
✔✔-learning involved the acquisition of new knowledge
-studied rats and learned they acquired a "cognitive map" of the maze
Computers and cognitive revolution (terminology of how we spoke about the brain changed) -
correct answer ✔✔-explored the possibility that the human mind followed processes and
procedures similar to those used in computers
Researchers (use of scientific method, methods of collecting and interpreting data) - correct
answer ✔✔-we use diverse methods and collect many types of data (cognitive neuroscience,
clinical neuropsycholog, neuroimaging technqiues, etc).
Capgras syndrome (what is it, what do we learn from it) - correct answer ✔✔-amygdala damage
results in lack of emotional response
-prefrontal cortex damage impairs reasoning& causes illogival thoughts
-sometimes found in people with Alzheimers
-facial recognition involves two separate systems in the brain (cognitive appraisal & emotional
appraisal)
