Chapter 1 Flashcards
(43 cards)
What is the nativist view?
Humans enter world with inborn store of knowledge and understanding of reality
What is the Empiricist view?
knowledge is acquired through experience and interactions with the world
What is cognitive psychology?
Branch of psychology concerned with how people acquire, store, transform, use, and communicate information
What is cognition
What goes on inside our heads
What are the four aspects of cognition?
When we
- percieve
- pay attention
- remember
- think
WHat are the three aspects of nature
Genetics
Physical appearance
Biological influences
What are the three aspects of nurture
Environment
Upbringing
Social influences
Who are two supporters of empiricism
Aristotle and John Locke
WHat was John Locke’s point of view
“Blank Slate”
WHat is the blank slate point of view
Like blank slates qwhen born, experiences shape everything
Who are two supporters of nativism
Descartes and Plato
Who was Wilhelm Wundt
Founder of psyc/structuralism, first to use experimental method for psychology
What does structuralism focus on
What the elemental components of the mind are rather than on the question of why the mind works as it does
Describe the structuralism approach
Approach where we break down mind into its major components rather than why the mind works the way it does
What does Wundt describe in the Principles of Psychology?
How systematically varying stimuli would affect or produce different mental states
What was the point of Wundt systematically varying stimuli?
To produce different mental states, then have subjects pull apart their experiences
What technique did Wundt develop
Introspection
What is introspection
Examining one’s conscious experiences and breaking them down into their simplest properties
What are the four properties of conscious experience
Mode, quality, intensity, and duration
What question does functionalism ask
Why does mind work the way it does rather than what the components of mind are
Who founded functionalism
William James
What does functionalism pull from
Evolution and adaption, habit
What does functionalism seek to study
Humans/mind in the natural environment/real life situations
What does John Watson’s behaviorism believe
All mental phenomena can be reduced to behavioral and physiological responses
