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WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OA EXAM 86 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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a procedure used by early psychologists in which trained

analytic introspection participants described their experiences and thought processes

in response to stimuli. Observing oneself


analytic introspection
Wilhelm Wundt
observing oneself


John McCarthy artificial intelligence


behaviorism
John Watson
scary noises-> fear for all furry objects

, the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior

behaviorism only, action and reaction are all that matter. Kid with the mouse

and projected onto all furry things


classical conditioning

bell dog
Ivan Pavlov/ John Watson
cognitive paradigm

cognitive revolution


The general view that people can best be understood by
cognitive paradigm
studying how they perceive and structure their experiences.


A shift in psychology, beginning in the 1950s, from the behaviorist

approach to an approach in which the main thrust was to explain

cognitive revolution behavior in terms of the mind. One of the outcomes of the

cognitive revolution was the introduction of the information-

processing approach to studying the mind.


filter model of attention
Donald Broadbent
how we take in info


model of attention that proposes a filter that lets attended stimuli

filter model of attention through and blocks some or all of the unattended stimuli.

Sensored before put into memory


operant conditioning
BF Skinner
box and mouse/bird


model of memory
Atkinson and Shriffin
either forgotten or remembered


sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
Model of memory
memory holds incoming information for a fraction of a second


Savings curve
Eddinghaus
takes less time when relearning list of syllables


psychosocial development emotions, personality, social relationships


piaget stages of cognitive development


0-2 sensorimotor-> senses and actions

2-6 preoperational -> words and images to represent
stages of cognitive
7-11 concrete operational -> concrete events and analogies,
development
perform arithmetic operations

12+ formal operational -> abstract reasoning


chemical processes

neurons activated
perception
brain structures activated

groups of brain structures activated


chemical processes

neurons activated
memory
brain storage

storage activated


propagated electrical potential responsible for transmitting

action potential neural information and for communication between neurons.

Action potentials typically travel down a neuron's axon


Controls language expression - an area of the frontal lobe,

brocas area usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle movements

involved in speech.

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