PS260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Applied Psychology, Neuropsychology, Behaviorism
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Definition of cognition: the cognition-performance distinction. History of cognition: greeks: perception vs thought, germans: studying the mind, americans: structuralism, functionalism and behaviourism, modern influences. Knowledge from personal view or experience; perception; a thing known. Cognitive psychology: the study of skills and knowledge how they are acquired, stored, transformed, and used. Cognition: attention, memory, perception, thinking/decision making, problem solving, language, perception. Cognition: behavioral, developmental, evolutionary, neuro-psychology, computational. Influenced other disciplines: developmental psychology, education psychology, social psychology, applied psychology (eyewitness testimony) Cognitive psychology plays an important role in 2 new fields: cognitive science: study of intelligence in humans, computer programs, and abstract theory, cognitive science is interdisciplinary. Cognitive neuroscience- examines where cognitive operations are performed in the brain. Three techniques are used: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri); involves magnetic fields, positron-emission tomography (pet); measures cerebral blood flow, event-related potentials (erp); records electircal activity of brain. Shifts emphasis from sensation/perception to the interrogation of sensory information.
