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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| associanism | sensations or experiences created knowledge; and knowledge was in the mind as associations |
| brocas area | production of speech. |
| coktail party effect | we are bale to attend to a single message, while ignoring the messages simultaneously delivered by others in the crowd. |
| cognitive psychology | |
| computional mind | |
| constructivist | we get knowledge and meaning from our interaction with the world. |
| double dissociation | a lesion affects one skill but not another, and another lesion affects on skill but not another. |
| empiricist | "blank slate" the organization of of the external world is thru the sensory. |
| equipotentiality | tells the body to take over when some parts are damaged. |
| functionalism | |
| gestalt | unconscious processes and active mental preparations that influenced how the mind registered experience. looking at the mind as wholes instead of smaller pieces. |
| hoslisitic | internal representations, which exert a top dpwn organizing force on experience and active adaptation of these internalized mental structures in response to experience. |
| information processsor | |
| logical positivism | truth lies in scientific explanations, and those scientific arguments must be stated in a way that is measurable or verifiable. |
| methodological doubt | everything must be doubted |
| middle ages | g growth of arts |
| neural networks | cells were connected to other excitetiry cells that respond to derees of stimlulation |
| ockhams razor | KISS |
| rationalists | they argue that we possess innate ideas, organizing tendencies or innate cognitive mechanisms, which determine the nature of human knowledge. |
| syllogistic reasoning | all men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore SOcrates is mortal." |
| scholastic | chruch members in the MAs that debated cognitive psych. |
| representation | model that sensory is transformed into an internal object. |
| scientific model | later became ochams razor |
| reflex arc | sensory connected to the mind and then back to a motor system. |
| wernicks area | if damaged you cant understand speech. speech recognition |
| structuralism | mental experience is the result of a combination of simple, nonmeaningful elements. gestalt, things can be broken down to simpler portions. |
| psychophysics | established the functional relationship between the sensory stimulus and the mind. how we deal with stimulus. |
| cognitve map | internal mental representation of the layout of ones environment. |
| psycholinguists | the states of mind that underlie language behavior. |
| box model on information processing | attention in which information is processed in a series of stages |
| temporal lobe | if damaged leads to problems understanding spoken language |
| hippocampus | memory and emotion |
| Amygdala | memory and emotional processing. |
| primary memory | momentary experience that vanished if not focused on, (sensory memory). |
| secondary memory | knowledge of former state of mind after it has already once dropped from consciousness. knowledge of something we have not been thinking about. |
| primacy effect | recall is better for items at the beginning of a list. |
| recency effect | recall is better for items at the end of a list. |
| sensory store | holds sensory information for a short amount of time. |
| iconic memory | visual memory |
| retroactive interference | when new info block old info |
| proactive interference | when old info blocks new information. |
| word length effect | harder to remember short term words in short term. |
| Articulatory suppression | asked to repeat something while trying to remember something else. |
| semantic coding | like chunking |
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