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What is Cognitive Psychology? - Answer-The scientific study of the human mind. The study of structures and processes of the mind and brain that take in, transform, and use information. Challenge of Cognitive psychology - Answer-The mind is unobservable. You cannot observe a mind. You can observe the stimulus and the products. "The mind is like a black box" What cognitive psychologists can observe: - Answer-Products, output of the mind: behavior, physiology. Three precursors to cognitive psychology - Answer-Introspectionism (Structuralism), Behaviorism, Functionalism Introspectionism (Structuralism) - Answer-Means to look inward. To understand the mind, look inside and see the contents of the mind. What are the structures inside the mind that we can observe by looking inward and thinking about we experience. Wilhelm Wundt - Answer-German who originated the school of psychology of Introspectionism (Structuralism) Edward Tichener - Answer-(1896) Student of Wilhelm Wundt. (Introspectionist) cataloged 42,415 sensations. Key problem with Introspectionism - Answer-It isn't really like empirical science like modern science. Difficult to verify objectively. Introspection by definition deal with private events.. You observe the end product and NOT the process itself. Hard to come up with a good detailed understanding of what's going on in the mind. Functionalism - Answer-A reaction to structuralism (introspectionism) Result of people being dissatisfied with structuralism. Natural evolution.. Arguing for scientific study of mind using biology and physiology. Mind is evolved. Theres a reason why the mind does its things. What is the purpose of the mind. How are we using it? What can it accomplish.William James - Answer-(). Leader of functionalism movement. First person to distinguish between STM and LTM. John Dewey - Answer-Leader of Pragmatist school. Subset of Fundamentalism. Pragmatism - Answer-Put knowledge to use. Applied psychology. EDUCATION. Developing a practical use in the methods and ways of thinking of functionalist psychology. attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth Progressive Education - Answer-Ideas and practices with the objective to make school teachings more effective for a democratic society. Behaviorism - Answer-Science of understanding behavior. Forget mind, mental processes. Trying to understand behavior. An approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior. Dominant school of thought for the 20th century. Emphasis on what can be directly observed. Thirsty = "water deprived" operationally. Ivan Pavlov - Answer-Behaviorist. Discovered classical conditioning. John Watson - Answer-Pioneer of developing behaviorism. Systematic way of approaching psychology through behaviorist perspective. Behavior is all you need. You can understand between stimuli and responses (even complicated behaviors). Thinking is subvocal speech. founder of infomercials