Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Human Factors And Ergonomics, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Gestalt Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Natalie J.Allen

Document Summary

Perception: interpreting sensory information to yield meaningful information. Pattern recognition: classifying a stimulus into a known category. Memory: the storage facilities and retrieval processes of cognition. Empiricism: knowledge comes from an individual"s own experience. Association: two distinct ideas or experiences, having nothing to do with each other, could become joined in the mind simply because they happened to occur or to be presented to the individual at the same time. Nativism: emphasizes the role of constitutional factors, of native ability, over the role of learning in the acquisition of abilities and tendencies. Introspection: presenting highly trained observers with various stimuli and asking them to describe their conscious experiences. Structuralism: wundt, focus on what the elemental components of the mind are rather than on the question of why the mind works as it does. Functionalism: the way the mind works has a great deal to do with its function, the purposes of its various operations.