COGNITION EXAM 1

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EXAM 1


 
  
Created Feb 5, 2012
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(mental activity) that describes the aquisition, strorage, transformation, and use of knowlesge 
 
cognition 
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synonym for the word cognition that refers to many mental activities  
 
cognitive psychology
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theoretical orientation that emphasizes people's mental processes and their knowledge 
 
cognitive approach 
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particular theoretical approach to psychology 
 
cognitive psychology 
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emphasized by aristotle - scientific evidence obtained by careful observations and experimentation 
 
empirical evidence 
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emphasized by william wundt 
 
introspection 
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analyzing your own sensations and report them as objectively as possible 
 
introspection 
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observation that our recall is is especially accurate for the final items in a series of stimuli 
 
recency effect 
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emphasized by Mary Whiton Calkins 
 
recency effect 
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he preferred to theorize about our everyday psychological experiences (textbook: principles...
 
William James 
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psychology must have focus on objective, observable reactions to stimuli in the environment 
 
behaviorist approach 
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a precise definition that specifies exactly how a concept is to be measured 
 
operational definition 
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emphasized that humans have basic tendencies to actively organize what we see, furtermore,...
 
gestalt psychology 
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he proposed that human memory is an active, constructive process, in which we interpret...
 
Fredric C. Bartlett 
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knowledge hat an object exists , even when it is temporarily out of sight
 
object performance 

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