PS260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lie Detection, Speech Segmentation, Ct Scan
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It is sometimes defined as the scientific study of the acquisition, retention and use of knowledge: cognitive psychology can help us understand capacities relevant to virtually every moment of our lives cognitive functioning. Diogenes of apollonia (around 500 b. c. ) any other domain. Aristotle (350 b. c. : universals as components of particulars, doctrine of association, contiguity, similarity, contrast. Donders (1868: speed of neural signals, led to measuring time of mental events. Ebbinghaus (1885: first experimental study of memory, nonsense syllables, learning curve, forgetting over time (cid:498)savings(cid:499) measure. Functionalism: william james (1890, experimental studies of mind, influenced b ebbinghaus, emphasis on both process and structure, primary vs. secondary memory. The cognitive revolution: cognitive revolution changes of science of psychology that occurred in the 1950s and 1969s, the new style was intended for studying problems we"ve already met: problems of memory, The years of behaviourism (1915-1955) research tool; therefore, it is not testable the situation, and not by the objective situation itself.
