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Cognitive Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is cognitive psychology? | the scientific investigation of human cognition Studies how people acquire and apply knowledge or information. |
| 2 Assumptions on cognitive science | Human cognition can at least in principle be fully revealed by the scientific method, that is, indiv components of mental proc can be identified and understood Internal mental proc can be described in terms of rules or algorithms in info proc models |
| 3 Main Approches | Experimental, Computalation, Neural |
| Experimental | (Psychophysical responses, response time, and eye tracking) |
| Computalation | (Develop formal mathematical and computational models of human cognition) |
| Neural | (Optical imaging, lesion patients) |
| Perception | those studying perception seek to understand how we construct subjective interpretations of proximal information from the environment |
| Attention | solves the problem of information overload in cognitive processing systems by selecting some information for further processing, or by managing resources |
| Learning | -improves the response of the organism to the environment. Cognitive psychologists study which new information is acquired and the conditions under which it is acquired. The study of learning begins with an analysis of learning phenomena in animals |
| Memory | -how it is required, stored and retrieved. Its domains have been functionally divided into memory for facts for procedures or skill |
| Concept formation | refers to the ability to organize the perception and classification of experiences by the construction of functionally relevant categories |
| Judgment and decision making | voluntary behavior implicitly or explicitly requires judgment and choice |
| Reasoning | the process by which logical arguments are evaluated or constructed |
| Problem Solving | -How humans pursue goal directed behaviors |
| Language Processing | How we process language |
| Human Brain contains? | roughly 86 billion neurons and trillions of intricate interconnections among those neurons |
| Research Ethics | Respects for persons Justice Beneficence |
| Respects for persons | participate by free choice informed consent |
| Beneficence | Do no harm to the participants Maximize benefits, minimize risk to participate |
| Justice | Equal treatment of people in society Equal distributions of burdens and benefits |
| The Illusion of Attention | We experience far less of our visual world than we think we do. If we were fully aware of the limits would reach |
| The victim of the police beating | Michael Cox |
| Who was put in jail for the crime? | Kenny Conley |
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