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Test info ● Need to know names and accomplishments Important stuff from Lec 1 ● Historical origins of cog psych ○ Hasan ibn al-haytham’s book of optics, he started the first experiments in vision, he is start of what we think of as experimental cog psych ■ Ran experiments on self, through deduction found how vision works, hundreds of years before fechner comes to similar conclusions ○ Fechner’s element of psychophysics ■ Relates physical stimuli to perceptions, he sort o...

PSYC 110- Exam 1 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024/2025 (100%) VERIFIED | RATED A+ Why do cognitive psychologists study language processes? How did developments in chemistry, biology, and physics affect cognitive psychology? What is the name for an intensive scientific study of a single person or institution? You want to design a study that measures the speed of thought in human research subjects. Which of these approaches would be most sensible? Your professor asks you to create a study ...

What is cognitive psychology? A branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind - that includes such mental processes as perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, etc. How is it possible to study the inner workings of the mind, when we can't really see the mind directly? We can study cognition indirectly by observing and measuring behavior. Donders' reaction time experiment Simple reaction time -When light flashes, push button Choice reacti...

Cognitive Psychology - answer-The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. Definition of the mind's role - answer-The mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning. Definition of how the mind operates - answer-The mind is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Cognition - answer-The mental processes, such a...

Analytic introspection - A procedure used by early psychologists in which trained participants described their experiences and thought processes elicited by stimuli presented under controlled conditions. Behavioral approach to the study of the mind - When the mind is studied by measuring a person's behavior and by explaining this behavior in behavioral terms. Behaviorism - The approach to psychology, founded by John B. Watson, which stated that observable behavior is the only val...

Cognitive Psychology Connecting Mind Research and Everyday Experience 5th Edition Goldstein The Mind and Cognitive Psychology Mind - CORRECT ANSWER-Creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning Cognition - CORRECT ANSWER-Mental processes such as perception, attention, and memory Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER-Study of mental processes and characteristics of the mind Francies Donders - C...

PYC3703 – Cognitive Psychology 2021 - Semester 1 and Semester 2 - Assignment 1 Question 1: Donders was interested in determining how long it takes for a person to make a decision. He determined this by measuring ... how long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus. 1. cognition 2. reaction time 3. processing time 4. analytical ability Question 2: The field that studies how to make machines behave in ways that are intelligent if a human were so behaving is known as ... 1...

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Who is generally credited with the invention of spectacles? - Salvino d'Armati of Florence, Italy (1285) When were minus or concave lenses invented? - 16th century for correction of myopic eyes (nearsightedness) When were toric lenses invented and by whom? - 19th century by Suscipi Who is credited with making the first bifocals? - Benjamin Franklin (1784) Who aroused the interest of physicians concerning the exam of the eye and prescribing spectale lenses? - F.C. Donders (1800)