assumptions

• What is the 'computer analogy' in cognitive psychology?

  Comparison of the human mind to a computer
• What are the three stages of the computer analogy?

  Input, process, output
• What cognitive processes are used during the process stage?

  Perception, attention, memory
• What does the mind represent in the computer analogy?

  Hardware of a computer
• What does cognitive processes represent in the computer analogy?

  Software of a computer
• Who proposed the multistore model of memory?

  Atkinson and Shiffrin
• What is the first step in the multistore model of memory?

  Information input through the senses
• What are the two types of memory stores in the multistore model?

  Short-term memory and long-term memory
• What is the cognitive approach's view of human beings?

  Information processors
• How do cognitive processes work together?

  To help us understand and respond to the world
• How do we recognize a dog according to cognitive processes?

  By perceiving features and matching memory
• What is the role of language in recognizing a dog?

  To name it based on knowledge
• What is information processing?

  How mental processes work together
• What technique did Wilhelm Wundt develop?

  Introspection
• What was Wundt's contribution to psychology?

  Opened the first experimental psychology lab
• When did Wundt open his psychology laboratory?

  In 1879
• What did Wundt's research assistants do during introspection?

  Reported thoughts and feelings about stimuli
• What is a criticism of introspection?

  Its validity as an objective scientific tool
• What are schemas in cognitive psychology?

  Organized packets of information
• How are schemas formed?

  Through experience and stored in memory
• What might a 'dog schema' contain?

  'Four legs, furry, bark, tail'
• How can schemas be refined?

  Through further interactions and experiences