PS260 Lecture Notes - Noam Chomsky, Verbal Behavior, Language Acquisition
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Psychological definitions of cognitive psychology: the research approach that views intelligent behavior within an information processing framework and is characterized by a willingness to develop and evaluate ideas about internal mechanisms and procedures that mediate behavior. Medin, ross, & markman (2001: cognitive psychology refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, and recovered. Neisser (1967: as cognitive psychologists, we are interested in a wide domain of inquiry: how people perceive, represent, remember, and use knowledge. Norman & rumelhart (1975: representation: the knowledge we possess, information we have in memory, static structure - almost never changing. Store representation as relative wholes, when need retrieve from memory: dynamic structure - always changing, process: an operation on an internal or external stimulus. Mental life explained in terms of 2 basic components: ideas (elements, associations (links between elements) forms foundation of how semantic memory organized.
