1. Brief History of Cognitive Psychology
Psychology 355: Cognitive Psychology Instructor: John Miyamoto 03/27/2018: Lecture 01-2
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2. Who Are We?
Instructor: John Miyamoto Office Hours: Tue 2:30 – 3:20, Room 215 Guthrie Research Interests: Judgment, decision making & reasoning, mathematical models of cognition
TA: Brianna Yamasaki
Office Hours: To-be-determined
Research Interests: Bilingualism, working memory/executive attention, and reading skill
TA: Roy Seo
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Research Interests: Bilingual language representation and control
For individual meetings, contact us by or in class.
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Outline
What is cognitive psychology? What will we study in Psych 355?
Brief History of Cognitive Psychology
Ideas from 19th century European experimental psychology
Behaviorism and anti-cognitive psychology
Why did cognitive psychology undergo a revival from today
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What is Cognitive Psychology? Discuss some example.
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5. What is Cognitive Psychology?
Cognitive psychology attempts to explain how humans perform cognitive activities.
What are cognitive activities?
Seeing objects and events in one’s surroundings.
Remembering something, e.g., facts, personal experiences, etc.
Understanding what is happening in a situation.
Communicating through spoken and written language.
Learning something new, e.g., how to use a computer, an Ipod, public transportation, introductory statistics, etc.
Solving problems.
Making decisions.
Drawing inferences.
Ask class what are examples of cognitive processes.
What is Cog Psych (continued)?
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6. What is Cognitive Psychology? (cont.)
Theory of human information processing including perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning, learning, development
Emphasis on ...
... experimental studies of human information processing (behavioral studies)
... brain activity while humans engage in cognitive processing (cognitive neuroscience)
... models of human information processing (computational modeling)
De-emphasis on: motivation, emotion
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9. Course Outline Briefly Explain the Mental Rotation Experiment
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Briefly Explain the Mental Rotation Experiment

10. Example: The Mental Rotation Experiment
How long does it take to decide whether two figures are identical (congruent) when one of the figures is rotate relative to the other figure?
This is just one example where being a subject in an experiment makes it easier to understand an experimental procedure.
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