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An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

February 16th, 2009 · No Comments · University

- Cognition – the collection of metal processes and activities used in perceiving, thinking and understanding.

- Cognitive psychology – how people learn, store and use information

- Early psychologists

o Wundt – introspection

o Titchner – structuralism

o James – functionalism

o Ebbinghour – scientific method

o Behaviourism vs neobehaviourism – SàR SàOàR

o Chomsky – linguistics – use of language is governed by internal rules

o Cognitive revolution – sensory à working à long term memory

§ Parallel distributed processing

§ Neural networks – the metaphysical model

- Memory – the mental processes of retaining information for later use and reteiving such information and the mental storage system that enables this

- Paradigms – study phase (encoding) vs test pahse (retrieval

o Recall – free/cued/serial

o Recognition

o Reaction time

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