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Cognitive Psychology
WHAT IS IT?
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Example
when a student learn maths, how to add or substract, they are learning and able to transfer information and then help in the futuro. Ex: save money
KEY PRINCIPLES
2 assumptions
Human cognition can at least in principle be fully revealed by the scientific method, that is, individual components of mental processes can be identified and understood
Internal mental processes can be described in terms of rules or algorithms in information processing models.
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DIFFERENT APROACHES
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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Helps to discover where these processes occur in the brain, and when.
involves using brain imaging and brain anatomy to study ‘live’ cognitive functioning in healthy individuals.
As technology improves, studies become more influential and potentially useful.
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When using these methods, the tendency for research to be conducted is just for the sake of research. Papers can often be lacking any theoretical basis, and result in ad hoc hypotheses. Furthermore, threshold levels need to be set to disregard noise, and these levels are a debatable issue.
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HISTORY
The word ‘cognition’ is derived from the Latin word cognoscere, meaning “to know” or “to come to know”.
ORIGINS
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1950s - 1970s
the tide began to shift against behavioral psychology to focus on topics such as attention, memory and problem-solving.
Currently
a number of different disciplines have started to come together and collaborate such as the fields of psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and neuroscience
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COGNITIVE REVOLUTION
lack of understanding of the internal mental processes led to no distinction between memory and performance and failed to account for complex learning.
decline of behaviorism as the dominant branch of scientific psychology and to the “Cognitive Revolution”.
researchers in several fields began to develop theories of mind based on complex representations and computational procedures
AUTHORS
Willhelm Wundt
started the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany.
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Sternberg
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defined Cognitive psychology as that which deals with how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information
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SUB-DOMAINS
perception
seek to understand how we construct subjective interpretations of proximal information from the environment.
composed of...
separate senses
(visual, auditory, somatosensory)
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