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COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. What is Cognitive Psychology? What does cognition mean?. A big problem. Psychologists study mental processes, but mental processes cannot be directly observed. ...however, we can do things to the whole box that will give us clues about what it’s like .

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COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

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  1. COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY • What is Cognitive Psychology? • What does cognition mean?

  2. A big problem • Psychologists study mental processes, but mental processes cannot be directly observed ...however, we can do things to the whole box that will give us clues about what it’s like There is a mind in here but we can’t open the box to look at it...

  3. Cognitive psychology • Cognition = thinking • Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of thinking processes like: • Perception • Attention • Memory • Problem solving • Language

  4. What is a metaphor? • Describing one thing in terms of another • Metaphors give psychologists ways of describing the (unobservable) mind • In cognitive psychology, the mind is compared to a computer • How is the mind like a computer?

  5. The computer metaphor Input processes Information manipulation processes Output processes Information storage

  6. What’s this?

  7. Now do you know what it is?

  8. If you’d only ever lived in a country where alcohol was forbidden, would you know what it was?

  9. Scorpions: Scary pest? Or lunch?

  10. Ikea: a furniture store? Or somewhere to have a quick snooze?

  11. What does this information processor do? 1. Takes in a shape. 2. Counts the vertices. 3. Adds one to this number. 4. Outputs a shape with the new number of vertices.

  12. What does this information processor do?

  13. What will the output be?

  14. Police: Friendly upholders of the law? Or someone to run from?

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  17. Write this down

  18. Cognitive psychologists investigate thinking by manipulating what people take into their minds (information) and observing what comes out (behaviour) • We can develop theories about how people’s minds work by comparing input and output • Good theories will allow us to predict the output from the input

  19. But remember... Image: www.ntkcomputer.com Whilst the mind is in some ways like a computer, the mind is not in fact a computer. How are the two things different?

  20. Homework • Think up three questions about people’s thinking processes. • Choose one of those questions and suggest how you could get an answer for it. • Remember that cognitive psychologists manipulate inputs and compare them with outputs.

  21. Reflection • Thinking about this lesson, note down: • The most interesting thing you have learned; • The most difficult thing you have done. • What made these things interesting/difficult?

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