CogPsy Chapter 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 deterministic | view that it is possible to have a complete understanding of human behavior such that i can know what a person will do before he or she does it |
| nondeterministic | there is something else that guides our thoughts and determines our actions |
| nativist | position that ideas are innate |
| empiricists | argue that all our knowledge comes from experience impinging an impressionable mind |
| associationism | knowledge originates from simple info from the senses and that this sensory info cna be combined into more complex ideas --> belief of empiricists |
| Wundt | founder of modern psych |
| structuralism | goal was to describe the structures that compromise thought |
| functionalism | by James: emphasis not on mental structure but the function of mental processes |
| introspection | by Wundt --> people try and follow their own thought proccesses |
| behaviorism | by Watson --> should only focus on what is observable |
| reflex | basic unit of behavior; an automatic action by the body that occurs when a particular stimulus is perceived by the environment |
| conditioned reflex | learned reflex |
| classical conditioning | training procedure and resultant learning that produces conditioned reflexes |
| operant conditioning | the consequences of your choice influence the likelihood that you'll make the same choice again |
| fixed action patterns | complex behaviors animals do even though they have little opportunity for practice/reward |
| critical period | time when an organism is primed to learn some particular info |
| generative | people can create novel sentences without prior behavior to encourage it |
| representation | a symbol for an entity in the real world |
| process | manipulates representations in some way |
| information process model | likened humans to computers |
| abstract construct | theoretical set of processes and representations that are useful in explaining some data |
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