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2. Chapter 1 An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

3. A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology • The Origins of Cognitive Psychology • Aristotle • empirical evidence • Wilhelm Wundt • introspection

4. A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology • The Origins of Cognitive Psychology • Early Memory Researchers • Ebbinghaus • Mary Whiton Calkins • recency effect • first woman president of APA

5. A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology • The Origins of Cognitive Psychology • William James • Principles of Psychology • tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon • Behaviorism • Watson • Skinner • operational definition

6. A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology • The Origins of Cognitive Psychology • The Gestalt Approach • gestalt • insight • Frederic C. Bartlett • memory as active, constructive process

7. A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology • The Emergence of Modern Cognitive Psychology • 1956 • "cognitive revolution"

8. A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology • The Emergence of Modern Cognitive Psychology • Factors Contributing to the Rise of Cognitive Psychology • disappointment with behaviorist approach • linguistics; Noam Chomsky • human memory research • children's thought processes; Jean Piaget

9. A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology • The Emergence of Modern Cognitive Psychology • The Information-Processing Approach • Mental processes are similar to the operations of a computer. • Information progresses through the cognitive system in a series of stages, one step at a time.

10. 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

12. A Brief History of Cognitive Psychology • The Current Status of Cognitive Psychology • more complex models • widespread influence on the discipline of psychology • applications of the cognitive approach in therapy • issues of ecological validity

13. Cognitive Neuroscience Techniques • cognitive neuroscience • social cognitive neuroscience • Brain Lesions • Positron Emission Tomography (PET scan) • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) • Event-Related Potential Technique (ERP)

14. Additional Areas that Contribute to Cognitive Psychology • Artificial Intelligence • The Computer Metaphor • structures and processes • Pure Artificial Intelligence • efficiency • Computer Simulation • computer modeling • take human limitations into account

15. Additional Areas that Contribute to Cognitive Psychology • Artificial Intelligence • The Connectionist Approach • parallel distributed processing (PDP) approach • neural network approach • cerebral cortex • serial processing • parallel processing

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17. Additional Areas that Contribute to Cognitive Psychology • Cognitive Science • interdisciplinary—cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence PLUS philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and economics • focus on internal representations

18. 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.

19. 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. • .

20. An Overview of Your Textbook • Five Themes in the Book • Theme 5: Many cognitive processes rely on both bottom-up and top-down processing.