Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 4th Edition - Chapter 1-3

Analytic introspection - Method where subjects trained to describe experiences and thought process in response to stimuli. Goal was to describe experience in terms of mental elements **Wundt Apparent movement - The illusion of movement -Proposed by Max Werthiemer cannot be explained by sensations whole is different than the sum of parts (perception system creates movement) *Gestalt principle Artificial intelligence - Field that studies how to make machines behave in ways that are like a human Axon - Tube filled with fluid that transmits electrical signals to neurons **also called nerve fibers Bottom-up processing - Perception comes from stimuli in the environment "eye to brain" Broncas Area - Language production Frontal Lobe *Damage=unable to speak but can still understand double dissociation Cell body - The center of a neuron which contains the mechanisms to keep the cell alive. Cerebral cortex - Responsible for most cognitive functions Choice reaction time - Time it takes to respond to 2 stimuli *Donders 2 lights left or right flashed+recognize light and decide which button to press+press left or right button=1/10th sec longer to make decision Classical conditioning - The transfer between 2 stimulus. e.g. Watson n RAyner "little Albert experiment" Cognition - A mental process which includes perception, attention and memory. Cognitive map - Tolman's experiment that involved rats finding food through a 4 armed maze. When starting the rats from a different part of the maze, they still navigated through towards the food which proved cognition (the idea that something other than food changed the rats response). He found they created a **Mental conception of physical space Dendrite - Branch out of cell body that receives signals from