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Psychology 2145 with Depue at University of Colorado Boulder

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Created: 2010-09-07
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cognitive psych

perceive, learn, remember, and thinking

dialect

progression of ideas over time

thesis

statement or belief

antithesis

statement that counters a previous idea

synthesis

integrates the best of the two

rationalism vs empirical

thesis: rational- seeing things in relation to the world, important in theory devantithesis: empirical- true evidence, leads to psych investigationsintrospection is to theory as empiricalism is to gathering data

Nature vs Nurture

descartes: rationalism and for naturelocke: empirical, tabla rasa, blank slate

structuralism vs funtionalism = associationism

structure: the detailsfunction: how it works, how and why, pragmatist view- practical view

associationism

contiguity- things that tend to occur togethersimilarity- similar featurescontrast- polaritiesEbbinghaus- father of learning, rehersalThorndike- law of effect, if rewarded the organism will continue, satisfaction

behaviorism

relies observable behavior and environmental event/ stimulipavlov and classical conditioningcontingency

radical behaviorism

watson, father of behavioral psych, skinneroperant conditioning- strengthening or weakening of behavior, contingent on the presence or absence of reinforcement

gestalt

understanding the whole from the partscannot understand something if it is broken

bandura

learning/ understanding from social/ observable studywe learn by example

emergence of cog psych

1950's invented compTuring test- computer was used to communicate via written outputLashley and Hebb

Goals of research

data gathering- empirical evidencedata analysis- how and whyhypothesis formation- body of explanation of whyhypoth testing- through experimentationstatistical sig- are you correct or notapplication to world- how does this relate to real world

experiment

obtaining samples of performance at a part time and placeis easy to apply to populationindependent variable- being manipulateddependent varible- accuracy and reaction timeconfounding varibles- things you cannot controlcorrelation does not cause causation

psychobiological research

study brains using postmortemprovides hard evidence of cognitive functionslimited accessibilitylooks at brain and obtains info during normal performance of cognitive activity

self reports, verbal protocol, self rating, diaries

reporting of patients cognitive rehersalsaccess to introspective insights from povinability to process outside awareness

case studies

engaging intensive interviews with patientrichly detailed info of a particular person

naturalistic observation

real-life situationscontextual infolack of experimental control

computer simulations and AI

attempt to make computers be as smart as humans with technological imputallows to check accuracylimitations are hardware and software

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