PS260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tegmentum, Midbrain, Spatial Memory
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Chapter 1 i) introduction ii) roots of cognitive psychology: introspection, cognitive revolution. Medin, ross, & markman (2001: as cognitive psychologists, we are interested in a wide domain of inquiry: how people reduced, elaborated, stored, and recovered. Neisser (1967) perceive, represent, remember, and use knowledge. Norman & rumelhart (1975: ideas (elements, associations (links between elements, contiguity: same time or space, similarity: alike conceptually, contrast: opposites. Aristotle - doctrine of association mental life explained in terms of 2 basic components: Wundt and his student titchener began the study of experimental psychology in the late 1800"s. Studied conscious mental events (feelings, thoughts, perceptions, recollections) Measured time between a stimulus and different types of responses (choice reaction time) - (simple reaction time) = decision time for choice lives) Introspection with minimum interpretation (look within to observe and record content of mental. Structuralism: goal is to find simplest mental elements and the laws governing the ways they can be combined.
