PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mental Chronometry, John Dewey, Episodic Memory
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Exam 1 review sheet lectures part 1. Introduction to the study of cognition: definition of cognitive psychology, biggest challenge for cog psych. Solutions to the dilemma: introspectionism: definition, 2 famous introspectionists: wundt, titchener, 3 problems; Functionalism, pragmatism, 2 famous functionalist/pragmatists: william james, john dewey, behaviorism: def"n, 3 famous behaviorists: pavlov, watson, skinner, 2 problems. Information: sensory data, representations: procedural knowledge, declarative knowledge, semantic (generic) knowledge, episodic knowledge. Donders" reaction time studies: mental chronometry, information processing stage model. Donders" subtractive method: detection task, choice task, 3 assumptions and each associated problem. Piercy"s studies of amnesia: 3 possible impaired processes, graph for experiment 2, which process is impaired. Perception: 4 information processing events, distal stimulus, proximal stimulus, representation, response. Lack of correspondence, paradoxical correspondence, perceptual constancies: size, color, shape. Depth perception: problem to be solved, monocular cues vs. binocular cues.
