PSY 280 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Cognitive Psychology, Connectionism, Positron
10 Apr 2020
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Answer: cognitive psychology has had an important impact on a variety of areas throughout psychology. 2. which term or phrase is closest in meaning to the term. Answer: people describe what they are thinking as they perform a task. Answer: william james emphasized that the human mind is active, rather than passive. 5. the perspective called the parallel distributed processing approach includes the word parallel in its name because: Answer: the human brain can process several items simultaneously. 8. according to your textbook, the artificial intelligence (ai) approach: answer: creates computer models that demonstrate intelligent behavior: according to chapter 1 in your textbook, the computer-simulation method: Answer: has networks that link together many neuron-like units: research on people with brain lesions: Answer: studies people who cannot perform specific cognitive tasks after they have had a stroke, tumor, or accident: when neuroscientists use pet scans (positron emission tomography):
