PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Visual Cortex, Fusiform Face Area, Receptive Field
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Cognitive psychology: study of the human mind; structure. Introspection: = looking inside own mind to figure out thoughts, problems: Functionalism: = answer to what is the purpose of one"s mental operations? . Pragmatism: = applied psychology; education; putting knowledge to use. Behaviorism: = focus on stimulus and behavior (only input and output, not processing, direct observations, problems: Rules in the head cannot be explained via behaviorism. Info processing: = mind is like a computer: input, operation, output. Raw data that we deal with (light hitting retina) = symbolic representation of objects in external world. Procedural: motor skills, cognitive skills skills. Declaritive: semantic = general knowledge, episodic = specific time and location. Assumption of additivity: = duration of all stages added together yields the reaction time, actually, processes may be occurring in parallel. Amnesiacs: encoding stage problem memory deficiency. Actual stimulus one"s perceiving: 2) proximal stimulus. Pressure, sound waves, light that cause sensory stimulation: 3) representation.
