Cognitive Psychology Module 1

• Cocktail Party Effect

  Ability to focus on one out of many voices
• Cognitive Psychology

  Study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information
• Progression

  Means changes, growth, improvement, developmental
• Dialectics

  Ideas evolve over time through a pattern of transformation
• Dialectics

  Involved in the progression of ideas
• Thesis

  A statement of belief; might consists of flaws
• Antithesis

  Counters the belief of the thesis believers
• Synthesis

  Integrates the two views (thesis and antithesis)
• Philosophy

  Seeks to understand the general nature of the world through introspection
• Introspection

  Examination of inner ideas and experiences
• Physiology

  Seek a scientific study of life-sustaining functions through empirical (observation-based) methods
• Introspection

  Involves looking inward to examine one's own thoughts, emotions, judgment, and perceptions
• Introspection

  Helps engage in reflection
• Reflective Dive

  Improves level of self-awareness
• Self-awareness

  Connected with higher resilience and lower levels of stress
• Introspective Reflection

  Aid in personal growth
• Plato

  A rationalist
• Rationalist

  Believes that the route of knowledge is through rational thinking and logical analysis
• Rationalist

  Does not need any experiment
• Reason

  The source of knowledge
• Aristotle

  An empiricist
• Empiricist

  Believes that we acquire knowledge via empirical evidences (through experience and observation)
• Empiricist

  Designs experiments and conduct studies to observe behavior
• Rationalism

  The route to truth is reasoned contemplation
• Empiricism

  The route to truth is meticulous observation
• Cognitive Psychology

  Depends on the work of both rationalists and empiricists
• Rene Descartes

  A rationalist
• Rene Descartes

  Viewed introspection and reflective method as being superior to empirical methods of finding truth
• Cogito Ergo Sum

  "I think, therefore I am"
• Rene Descartes

  The only proof of existence was thinking and doubting
• John Locke

  An empiricist
• John Locke

  Enthusiasm for empirical observations
• John Locke

  Humans are born without knowledge; therefore, must seek through empirical observation
• John Locke

  Termed the "tabula rasa"
• Tabula Rasa

  Means blank or clean slate
• John Locke

  Life and experiences write knowledge on us
• John Locke

  There is no innate knowledge
• Immanuel Kant

  Dialectically synthesized the views of Descartes and Locke
• Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge comes from the use of reason and experiences
• Transcendental Idealism

  Strikes a balance, reconciling the two accounts