Chapter 1: The Approach of Cognitive Psychology
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deterministic
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nondeterministic
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nativist
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empiricist
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structuralism
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functionalism
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the view that ideas come "built into" the mind rather than being learned through experience
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the school of psychology that used introspectionism as its method
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the view that ideas are learned through experience
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the view that claims that human behavior is capable of being predicted
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the view that claims that human behavior cannot be accurately predicted
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the school of psychology that focused on the adaptive nature of mental processes
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behaviorism
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classical conditioning
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operant conditioning
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critical period
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information processing
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the view that humans form mental representations and then manipulate those mental representations
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a form of learning where an organism makes a response and environmental consequences affect the future probability of that response
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the school of psychology that focused on overt behaviors
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a form of learning that produces conditioned reflexes
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a "window" during which a given behavior is more rapidly acquired
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Democritus
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Aristotle
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Kant
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Leibnitz
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Berkeley
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Claimed that innate ideas are very important and that experience serves only to liberate ideas that already existed in the mind.
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Said that mental processes may exist in time, but not in space (and therefore cannot be measured).
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Believed that some ideas came from experience while other ideas were innate.
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Empiricist who claimed that all our knowledge comes from experience (e.g., we have to learn to perceive how far away objects are from us).
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Thought that perception involved the transfer of characteristics from an object to your senses (e.g., a red apple makes some part of your visual system red)
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Proposed that objects emit beams of atoms in the shape of objects in the world.
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