Intro to Cognitive Psychology
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- Intro to Cognitive Psychology
- Aims to understand human cognition by studying behaviour
- Methods of study
- Experimental Cognitive Psychology
- Controlled experiments simplify & use analogy of computer
- Bottom up (sensory input - process - output) vs top down (context influences output)
- Intangible concepts --> models - generate predictions & test
- Weaknesses: Low ecological validity, task impurity (more than 1 cog process) & task specificity (ungeneralizable to other experiments)
- Controlled experiments simplify & use analogy of computer
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Uses brain imaging to correlate tasks to brain areas
- Weaknesses: Findings are correlational & don't say what processes are, low ecological validity
- Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Uses patient evidence & assesses task performance in patients
- Weaknesses: Can't replicate because brain damage is different, compensatory mechanisms may have occurred from brain damage & tightly controlled experiments
- Computational Cognitive Science
- Uses developing computer models
- Experimental Cognitive Psychology
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