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Cognitive Psychology: Class 1, Part A - Overview and History
U.C. Berkeley Extension Cognitive Psychology X170
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
03/03/2012

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Cognitive Psychology
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The Science of Cognition How the mind is organized to produce intelligent thought and how it is realized in the brain.
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Empiricism
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Knowledge comes from experience
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Nativism
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Knowledge is innate
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Wilhelm Wundt
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Germany 1879 Cognitive Psychology Introspection
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Mayer and Orth
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Germany (1901) Free association task
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Williams James
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America Principles of Psychology (1890)
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Edward Thorndike
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American Theory applicable to classroom
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John Watson
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American, Behaviorism
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Wolgang Köhler
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Gestalt psychologists, Germans in US
"The mind is more than the sum of its parts"
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"Cognitive Revolution" Influences
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- World War II - Artificial Intelligence - Linguistics
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Information-Processing School
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Information-Processing Approach Cognition: set of steps that process information Example: Sternberg Paradigm Sequence of information-processing
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