PSYCH 322 1st Edition Lecture 3Outline of Last Lecture • Intro to Cognitive Psychology• What is Cognition?• 3 things we have to use everyday• Questions to considerOutline of Current Lecture • Cognitive PsychologistsCurrent LectureWe didn’t talk much in lecture about anything in out textbook. Professor Haynes talked a lot about knowing the timeline of different psychologists and what they were studying or field they founded. Professor Haynes encouraged us to create our own timeline at home including the people, dates and accomplishments. She also described strategies she utilized while she was in school.She also talked about encoding information. Doing something while studying or making non-sense syllables will help encode information for storage, in your long term memory. PERSON PROCEDURE RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS CONTRIBUTIONDonders (1868)Simple reaction time vs. choice reaction timeChoice reaction time takes seconds longer; therefore, it takes second to make a decisionFirst cognitive psychology experimentWundt (1879) Analytic introspection No reliable results Established the first laboratory of scientific psychologyEbbinghaus (1885)Savings method to measure forgettingForgetting occurs rapidly in the first 1 to 2 days after original learningQuantitative measurement of mental processesJames (1890) No experiments; reported observations of his own experienceDescriptions of a wide range of experiences First psychology textbook; some of his observations are still valid todayTime line showing early experiments studying the mind in the 1800s and the rise of behaviorism in the 1900s.© Cengage Learning Figure 1.10Time line showing events associated with the decline of the influence of behaviorism (above the line) and events that led to the development of the information-processing approach to cognitive psychology (below the
View Full Document
Unlocking...