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Cognitive Psychology ch 1
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
02/06/2012

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William James
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-Principles of Psychology (1890)
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Structuralism
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Describe the elemental components of consciousness, specifically sensations, images, and feelings. Based on introspection.
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Functionalism
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what the mind is for, rather than its structural components.
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Behaviorism
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The study of behavior.
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Pavlov
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Classical Conditioning
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Skinner
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Operant Conditioning (began with the "law of effect")
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Information Processing
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Mental representations are the essential elements of cognition and that mental processes modify these representations in a series of stages.
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Cognitive Psychology
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Study of human mental processes and their role in thinking, feeling, and behaving. Includes: perception, memory, acquisition, creativity, decision making, and reasoning.
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Mental Representations
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Unobservable internal code for information.
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Stages of Processing
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Steps required to form, modify, and use mental representations in a cognitive task
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Serial Processing
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Cognitive operations occur one at a time in series
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Parallel Processing
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Cognitive operations occur simultaneously in parallel. (Shiff, you win.)
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Cognitive Architecture
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Design or organization of the mind's information processing components and systems
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Module
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Set of processes that are automatic, fast, and encapsulated apart from other cognitive systems.
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Symbolic Models
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Assume that the mind is built like a digital computer. They assume mental representations are symbols that are serially processed by a set of rules, just as the data in a computer are processed according to the rules specified in its software program.
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Connectionist models
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Simulations of simple neuronlike units arranged in complex networks.
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Self-knowledge
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Consciousness; capacity to represent the self mentally in addition to the objects, events, and ideas encountered in the external world.
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Informational Access
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Capacity to be able to report on mental representations and the processes that operate on them.
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Sentience
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Basic capacity for raw sensations, feelings, or subjective experience of any kind.
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Default Network
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Regions of the brain that are active when people are left free to reflect on the past or to envision teh future.
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Double Dissociation
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Independent variable affects Task A but not Task B, and a different variable affects Task B but not Task A.
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