An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

1. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology Chapter 1

2. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology The Origins of Cognitive Psychology Aristotle empirical evidence Wilhelm Wundt introspection Early Memory Researchers Ebbinghaus Mary Whiton Calkins recency effect first woman president of APA

3. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology The Origins of Cognitive Psychology William James Principles of Psychology tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon Behaviorism behaviorist approach Watson Skinner operational definition

4. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology The Origins of Cognitive Psychology The Gestalt Approach Gestalt psychology Frederic C. Bartlett memory as active, constructive process

5. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology The Emergence of Modern Cognitive Psychology 1956 & the MIT symposium Ulric Neisser's Cognitive Psychology Factors Contributing to the Rise of Cognitive Psychology Disappointment with Behaviorism Linguistics; Noam Chomsky Memory research Developmental psychology; Jean Piaget object permanence

6. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology The Emergence of Modern Cognitive Psychology The Information-Processing Approach a mental process can be compared with the operations of a computer a mental process can be interpreted as information progressing through the system in a series of stages, one step at a time

7. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology The Emergence of Modern Cognitive Psychology The Information-Processing Approach Atkinson-Shiffrin model Sensory Memory Short-term Memory (Working Memory) Long-term Memory

8. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 Current Issues in Cognitive Psychology ecological validity Cognitive Neuroscience social cognitive neuroscience Brain Lesions Positron Emission Tomography (PET scan) Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Event-Related Potential Technique (ERP) Single-Cell Recording Technique

9. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 Current Issues in Cognitive Psychology Artificial Intelligence The Parallel Distributed Processing Approach parallel distributed processing (PDP) connectionism neural networks cerebral cortex serial processing parallel processing

10. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 Red Riding Hood Network Big Ears Big Eyes Big Teeth Kindly Wrinkled Handsome

11. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 An Overview of Your Textbook Preview of the Chapters Five Themes in the Book Theme 1: The cognitive processes are active, rather than passive. Theme 2: The cognitive processes are remarkably efficient and accurate.

12. Cognition 7e, Margaret Matlin Chapter 1 An Overview of Your Textbook Five Themes in the Book Theme 3:The cognitive processes handle positive information better than negative information. Theme 4: The cognitive processes are interrelated with one another; they do not operate in isolation. Theme 5: Many cognitive processes rely on both bottom-up and top-down processing.