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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
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