Intro to Cognitive Psychology

What are Cognitive Domains?

Phenomena that is dictated by the brain that makes up the intellect

What is a High level cognitive domain?

A Domain that is consciously controlled in a 'top down' manner

Outline the simple equation that summarises Donders Experiment

td = t2 - t1

What was the name of the theory that first cognitive psychologist Wundt developed?

Structuralism

How does Structuralism work?

Splits the brain into schematic elements known as sensations that make up the human conscious

What were the two types of empirical experiment that Wundt used in his research?

Response times (Donder) and Introspection

What area of cognitive psychology did Ebbinghuas specialise in?

Memory

How did Ebbinghaus test for memory without including previous knowledge as a bias?

Nonsense Syllables

What theory did psychologist James work under?

Functionalism

What was the name of the mid 1900s discipline that set out to discredit Cognitive psychology?

Behaviorism

What was the main focus of behaviorism?

The behavioral output of the brain and how its' environmental influences

Describe Pavlovian Classic conditioning

Creating two random stimuli to become related causing both to create the same behavioral output

Describe Skinner operant conditioning

Conditioning behavior by using a reward-punishment system

What was the name of the controversial experiment in which an infant is conditioned to fear furry objects?

Little Albert

What was the name of the rat based discovery that disproved the behaviorist positive reinforcement learning?

Tolman's Cognitive maps

Who was the academic that disproved that the acquisition of language was developed through trail and error operant conditioning?

Noam Chomsky

What was Chomsky's biggest counter argument against the Skinner theory of language acquisition?

Children Create sentences with improper gamma and vocab

What form of schematic model did the birth of computing give to Cognitive psychology?

Flow diagrams

What computing component is our memory famously referred to?

CPU

What is the number "bits" of memory that Miller theorised we had?

7 +- 2

What is the main form of Schema used to denote theory in modern cognitive psychology?

Models

What type of models are used to denote an overall representation the of the brain?

Structural

What type of models are used to show how different cognitive mechanisms in the mind are executed?

Process

What type of models show processes in relation to the mental capacity they take up?

Resource