PSYC 221 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lexical Decision Task, Tabula Rasa, Edward B. Titchener

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Thomas Spalek

Document Summary

Chapter 1 introduction: defining cognition, historic theories, psycophysics, first psychological lab, structuralism, hermann von ebbinghaus, functionalism, behaviourism. Analytic approach (10) attempting to understand complex events by breaking them down into their components. Behaviourism (17) the school of thought in which observable behaviour was the topic of interest, and the learning of new stimulus-response associations, by classical conditioning or by reinforcement principles, was deemed the key behaviour to study. Cognition (9) the collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking, and understanding, and the act of using those processes. Cognitive science (2) a new term designating the study of cognition from the multiple standpoints of psychology, linguistics, computer science, and neuroscience. Empiricism (12) the philosophical position, originally from aristotle, which advances observation and observation-derived data as the basis for all science. Functionalism (16) william james the movement in psychology in which the functions of various mental and physical capacities were studied (contrast with structuralism).