Chapter 1

Question 1

Analytic introspection

Answer 1

Procedure used by early psychologists in which trained participants described their experienes and thought processes elicited by stimuli presented under controlled conditions.

Question 2

Behaviourism

Answer 2

Watson- stated that observable behaviour is only valid data for psych. Doesnt account for consciousness and unobservable mental processes.

Question 3

Cognition

Answer 3

mental process involved in perception, attention, memory, lanugage, problem solving, reasoning, making decisions.

Question 4

Cognitive psych

Answer 4

Branch of psych that is concerned with scientific study of the mental processes involved in perception, memory, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, decision making.

Question 5

Cognitive revolution

Answer 5

Shift in psych that began in the 1950s, introduced the info-processing approach to studying the mind.

Question 6

Info processing approach

Answer 6

Approach to psych developed in the 1950s, mind is seen as processing information through a sequence of stages.

Question 7

Long term memory

Answer 7

Memory mechanism that can hold large amounts of info for long periods of time. One modal model of memory.

Question 8

Mental chronometry

Answer 8

measuring the time-course of mental processes.

Question 9

Mental rotation

Answer 9

rotating an image of an object in the mind.

Question 10

Modal model of memory

Answer 10

Atkinson and Shrifin- describes memory as a mechanism that involves processing info through a series of stages. includes short term and long term.