Define Cognitive Psychology Key Terms Flashcards

A procedure used by early psychologists in which trained participants described their experiences and thought processes elicited by stimuli presented under controlled conditions.

The ability of a compunter to perdorm tasks usually associated with human intelligence.

Studying the mind by measuring a person's behavior and explaining this behavior in behavioral terms.

The approach to psychology founded by John B. Watson, which states that observable behavior provides the only valid data for psychology. A consequence of this idea is that consciousness and unobservable mental processes are not considered worthy of study by psychologists.

Reacting to one or more stimuli. For example in Donders experiment participants had to make one response to one stimulus and a different response to another stimulus.

The mental processes involved in preceptoin, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making.

Mental conceptions of a spatial layout.

The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making. In short, cognitive psychology is concerned with the scientific study of the mind and mental processes.

A shift in psychology beggining in the 1950s from the behaviorist approach to an approach in which the main thrust was to explain behavior in terms of the mind. One of the outcomes of the cognitive revolution was the intriduction of the information-processing approach to studying the mind.

The approach to psychology, developed begining in the 1950s in which the mind is descrubed as processing information through a sequence of stages.

Computer program devised by Alan Newell and Hervert Simon that was able to sikce logic problems.

Process by which experiences or information that has entered the memory system becomes strenghthen so it is resistant to interference caused by a traumna or other events.

System that creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking and reasoning, and that creates mental representations of the world.

In cognitive psychology a representation of the workings of the mind; often presented as interconnected voxes that each represent the operation of specific mental functions.

Stufying the ming by measyring physiological and behavioral responses and explaining behacior in physiological terms.