PSY 108 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Visual Field, Retina, Memory
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What is cognitive psychology: perception, paying attention, remembering, distinguishing items in a category, visualizing, understanding and producing language, problem solving. Stages of scientific psychology - all create theories on the basis of data gathered from experiments: 1. Percepts can be broken down into fundamental sensations . **people don"t initially describe the parts (i. e say book or lemonade ) reported multiple sensations after hundreds of hours of training. Introspectionism legacy: many mental phenomena are unconscious, memory, language, attention, etc, modern researchers don"t rely on introspections to study these processes. Introspection can fool us: perception feels easy , but it can help understand higher level cognitive phenomena (i. e problem solving, 2. Ian pavlov - studied the learning of associations between stimuli. Modern cognitive psychology: cognitive revolution (information-processing psychology) - behaviorism replaced with modern cognitive psychology. Immanuel kant: reason backward from observation to determine the cause, analogous to a detective using clues left behind to figure out how.
