PSYC 380: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY PREP GUIDE 2

NAME: DATE:

MATERIALS: Cognition 7E, Ch. 1

SECTIONS: 1.1: Thinking About Thinking through end of 1.4: Cognitive Psychology & Information Processing

PAGES: 1-12

Why do many studies of Cognition seem like “obvious” questions, or lack direct ecological validity?

What are the advantages and disadvantages to this approach to Cognitive research? Be sure to use the terms described in the textbook to explain your answer.

Describe Ebbinghaus’s role in the development of the field of Cognitive Psychology. What was his main goal, and what is a “savings score”?

What role did World War II have in changing the field of psychology? What was the role of psychologists in the war?

The scientific work in Cognitive Psychology is often interdisciplinary. How does this era of psychology speak to that idea?

Compare and contrast Chomsky and Skinner’s views on human behavior and language.

As a linguist, what were Chomsky’s criticisms of behaviorism, and how were they backed up by the work of verbal learning researchers, like Ebbinghaus?

How did Allen Newell and Herb Simon suggest that the human mind is most like a computer?

In what way was the introduction of computer technology helpful to cognitive psychology, and the understanding of mental processes? How did the field of psychology evolve as a result of this advancement?

Take this a step further, and include your own ideas about how the computer metaphor breaks down: what doesn’t it address about mental processing?

How are the human mind and a computer system different?

What can the human mind do that a computer may not be able to process, classify, or analyze?

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