PSYC 3030 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Psychology, Scientific Method, Sensory Neuron
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Overview of cognitive psychology: a subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes. Psychology need no delude itself into thinking that it is making mental states the object of observation. Behaviorist rejected the study of mental processes: chomsky. What does it involve: a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. Test your hypothesis with an experiment (control) Report your results (explain: what is an independent variable, manipulated to affect dv, will always have atleast two levels , a dependent variable, depends on the independent variable. Sensation: how do humans process information, interacting memory systems. Sensory memory: is the shortest-term element of memory. It is the ability to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended: we have separate memory sores for each of our sensory systems.
